April 21, 2010
the new hundred
Benjamin Franklin is still on the C-note. But he has been joined by a disappearing Liberty Bell in an inkwell and a bright blue security ribbon composed of thousands of tiny lenses that magnify objects in mysterious ways. Move the bill, and the objects move in a different direction.
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Wish I’d had me a new C-note on pot-smoking day.
I’m finding the additional colours rather disturbing – you need to be careful or you’ll end up with Euros style notes!
I have no theoretical problem with changing the design of US currency.
I do have a huge problem with them changing the $100 bill for the third or fourth time when they haven’t changed the $1 bill *once*.
Is it too much to ask for them to make up their goddamn minds, pick a design, reprint all the denominations, and stick with it?
I think they keep changing higher denomination bills to keep up with ever-more-sophisticated forgery techniques.
And–it costs them $100 to make each $100 bill. Let’s have bills that can also be used as phones. Let’s have coins that grow brocolli or carrots when you plant them. Let’s have flexible video display bills that will show the largest bill you have until it is fed into a cash register slot. Your change? The same bill, but a smaller denomination.
Call me a doubting Thomas but I can scarcely believe that whole magnification mirror lens story.
Franklin looks a little pissed off.
He’s disappointed in what you deem to be worth $100. In his day…
I wonder if the apostrophe has been a stumbling block for anyone. “Know its features. Know it’s real.”