Thread: Will the BEP offer the new $100 notes?

The BEP sells a reversible frame. Just take it down, turn it around, put it back up. All without removing the sheet from the frame. I just got one as a gift for my 32-sheet of $2s.

No word on the new $100's.....but the $50 sheets are back in stock;http://www.moneyfactorystore.gov/50c...testsheet.aspx

Anyone else think the new $100 bill is hideous? It could have gone with some more color instead of the occasional splurge of blue and orange, I wish our money looked more like canadian currency.

Originally Posted by gmaster456

Anyone else think the new $100 bill is hideous? It could have gone with some more color instead of the occasional splurge of blue and orange, I wish our money looked more like canadian currency.

Maybe not "hideous" but not all that impressive, either, seeing as, I read in an article about the Treasurer being at an elemetary school somewhere a couple years ago talking about U.S. currency, and she quoted "The new $100 bill is still "top secret", but all I can tell you is, its very colorful" So I was expecting something much more. The new $100 bill is not that overly colorful on the front, and I can not believe how the back of the new $100 bill is virtually DEVOID of ANY colors other than the traditional green ink and white paper, save a few clusters of little "100s" in spots and the huge golden 100 to the bill's right. Its like...they're not even trying any security features as far as the back of the bill goes. I hope if they ever issue a $200 bill or bring back the $500 bill, and/or $1,000 bill, or heck, even if they decide to redesign the $1 and/or $2 bills that they come up with something a bit more creative.

When the new note is released, you can go to any of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks and by a strap for $10K
You never know.. you may just get lucky with Low SNs. That will be my plan to go to the Boston Fed Reserve Bank and at least inquire.

RickieB

Tell you what, when they come out I'm cherry picking the serials of the ones I get!

10 Grand? Seriously? Not anytime soon I'm afraid - dang mortgage, car payment, food, and utility bills have me strapped. Ok strapped on money, but not able to get straps of money - ??? - wait??? ummm never mind?

Originally Posted by ronterry

10 Grand? Seriously? Not anytime soon I'm afraid - dang mortgage, car payment, food, and utility bills have me strapped. Ok strapped on money, but not able to get straps of money - ??? - wait??? ummm never mind?

Isn't it amazing to think that, back when $10,000 bills circulated, one starp of $10,000s was one million dollars? The drug lords and money launderers would absolutely LOVE to see that denomination return.

I hope so.

Originally Posted by RickieB

When the new note is released, you can go to any of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks and by a strap for $10K
You never know.. you may just get lucky with Low SNs. That will be my plan to go to the Boston Fed Reserve Bank and at least inquire.

RickieB

That's interesting.

I was under the impression that the Fed banks only did business with other banks, and not the consumer, directly. Now that I know this, maybe I'll make my own trek over to the Boston Fed, at some point, and see if I can get an uncirculated strap of $2's, or something.

Oh, btw, Rickie B, from one Mass native, to another.

I heard that is the best place to insure getting a nice UNC strap! My local bank, well they told me to come during Christmas if I wanted a new condition strap! In their defense I did find a 1964 silver Roosie in a roll search this evening!!! Still amazes me that silver is still in circulation along with Silver Certs???????

I personally don't see any reason the BEP couldn't pull a sheet off the line to fill a special order, regardless of denomination, size, or FR bank. However we are dealing with a government bureaucracy! and that's all she wrote!

More likely would to be to pull it from the supply of star notes that they print. Apparently they don't cut those until they are going to be needing them. At least that was the case with the twos when they first started offering them. The sheets of singles had gone wellbut with the twos they weren't currently printing any so they went to the stockpiled star note sheets (That is why all the Series 1976 Two dollar sheets are star notes.)

I was under the impression that the Fed banks only did business with other banks, and not the consumer, directly. Now that I know this, maybe I'll make my own trek over to the Boston Fed, at some point, and see if I can get an uncirculated strap of $2's, or something.

Your first thought is correct they don't deal with the general public, member banks only.

Numismatic News has an article today:

BEP Struggles With $100
Production of the new $100 note was a thorn in the side of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving operations in 2010.

“The single biggest obstacle to successful production was the tendency of the $100 currency paper with the three dimensional security ribbon to crease as the sheets of paper fed through the intaglio printing press,” BEP Director Larry Felix reported in the 2010 annual report.
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They should have said the creasing was another security measure and it's regulated pattern only known by BEP. This would have driven the forgers and unfriendly governments crazy trying to figure it out.