[VRWCmember]

It will probably cost the treasury just a little under $119 each to produce this new $100 bill, making it a real bargain.

[P8riot]

Doesn’t matter. I haven’t seen a $100 in years.

[WayneS]

Hi-Tech, eh?

Will they be “e-mailable”?

[Hodar]

They had a fascinating show on Discovery on the counterfieting operations that go on, overseas, of our currency. Some very good counterfiets are being produced in China (either with the Chinese Gov’t aide, or without it); these bills are so good, they are called ‘Superbills’.

We really don’t have a choice in the matter.

[VRW Conspirator]

Golly gee Wally, I hope they put Obama on the bill.

[mlocher]

The folks who print America's money have designed a high-tech makeover of the $100 bill. It's part of an effort to stay ahead of counterfeiters as technology becomes more sophisticated and more dollars flow overseas, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says....... The $1 bill isn't getting a makeover.

It must cost more that $1 to counterfeit a $1 bill.

[BitWielder1]

The new currency will not go into circulation until Feb. 10 of next year. That will give the government time to further erode its value.

There, fixed it.

[SkyDancer]

It'll look something like this ...

[IamConservative]

I recently saw a counterfeit $100 bill. It was made from a $5 bill. They had bleached a $5 and then printed a $100 on the “blank” paper with a color lazer printer. The pens retailers use to test the paper did not detect it. The only way to tell was to look at the strip in the paper and you could clearly see it was a five spot.

[4rcane]

US use polymer currency yet? or is it still paper

[cvq3842]

Why not just make currency out of something of real value? :)

[CodeToad]

They obviously don’t have a human factors person on staff. No one will know all those new items of the bill and the bill becomes too complicated to validate by the average person, so the bills won’t be validated by the average person.

[ThanhPhero]

If the past is a guide to the present, North Korea will be distributing their own copies of this thing in Asia before the Washington product gets there and no one in Asia will be able to tell the difference. The Treasury claims they can identify the NK counterfeits but no one else can. That makes the fakes good money in SEA but the government banks won’t accept USD $100 bills. The gold shops do, though.

[robert561]

It looks like a euro. They’re turning the dollar into the euro with less value

[GraceG]

Making it harder to counterfeit doesn’t stop them from printing more and debasing it.

[jiggyboy]

It's part of an effort to stay ahead of counterfeiters

If only they could stay ahead of the Federal Reserve itself.