Your thoughts on the new $100

HI! I'm brand new here, just joined. I'm not actually a collector of bank notes, but I guess I'm an admirer of them, a non-collecting notaphile. I appreciate the art and history of a bank note, and I love how everyone posts their collections here. I just bought the Whitman Encyclopedia of U.S. Paper Money from Amazon to study the history of US bank notes, which I find fascinating (and world notes, too, really - are there similar full-photo encyclopedias for other currencies?).

Anyway, I just wanted to hear opinions of veteran US currency collectors on the new $100 bill. Sorry if it's an old topic; a search didn't turn much up. I'm sure most will prefer the older notes for their artistry and overall distinctive look to the new multicolored ones. But it seems like the new $100 will look even more drastically different from all other bills. So, what do the professionals think?

 

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I am no professional at what i like nor do i like to collect paper money but in my opinion...i don't like the current currency dollars we have there to simple and nothing to admire or maybe i just say that cause i see them everyday. for a fact though i do like the old currency especially around the 1930s-50s. Maybe i am wrong some people like it but thats just my opinion. Everyone has there likes

 

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goddess of victory! she is one of my favorites!!!!

 

I don't care for the new design much. It's nice they tried to add some color and new design detail, but all they did is make it look like a cluttered mess. There's a big difference between great detail, and just too much garbage.
Guy~

 

I have not seen her yet. I will contact the bank soon to see what they have. --- She sounds lovely!!!

 

I'll make my decision when I'm holding one in hand. Chances are it won't be mine, but I'll still be holding it.

 

Pablo, Welcome to CT! and the Paper Money forum! :hail:

There have been quite a number of threads here that previously discussed member's initial thoughts on the new note, before and after it made it's debut:

New $100 bill

New $100

New $100 Bill!!

New $100 Bill design

The new $100 bill count down clock took a crap on me.

New $100 Bill Unveiling in less than 48 hours!


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Also, please note the link in the upper right corner of every CT page, "Advanced Search" Using the search tool can provide you with a wealth of information on just about any topic or perspective therein.

Again welcome to CT!

 

New $100 note Educational Materials (Downloadable PDFs) from NewMoney.gov [Department of the Treasury]

 

No need to ask yet, the new note will not begin circulating until February 10th 2011.

 

krispy, thanks for the links. I searched, honest...

 

Excellent! Glad to hear it. It gets easier to search the longer you've been using the forums. :smile

 

i'm not impressed.

 

why? it's not even been released yet, you couldn't possibly have experienced one yet to be so absolute about it.

 

i saw it in the mag. interesting, just thought it'd be more exciting.

 

Hi-res images have, though. That was enough to show me it's far too cluttered with stuff. It looks like a cheap ad.
Guy

 

Personally i dont care for the new design, Iam all for bringing back the colors and designs
Of the past "the new money is so boring"

 

Where is there a hi-res image of it?

 

The ones I saw were on Coin World's online edition a month or so back.

 

Let us revisit the ever so typical 'resistance to change' and superficial assessment of anything new in coin and currency design that the admirer, dealer and collector/hobbyist of numismatics is all too quick to shoot down upon initial inspection, yet are all too quick to clamour about after a few years or generations once the designs are firmly a fixture of numismatics when it's safe to shower praise and pretense behind the security of profit vested them from low printages, known errors, fancy serials, design flaws, mules, etc.

There are more features to new currency designs than those of the past, particularly in regards to technological advancement in security features. It was after all, security features, applied in sophisticated layers on bank notes, reflecting the decorative design aesthetic of the age, that made past designs what they are known for. Simple, bold and serving numerous functions, modern security features, maintaining national symbols for identity and trust coupled with user friendly designs for the visually impaired and the everyday transaction in an ever increasing and dangerous global market of emboldened and digitally enabled counterfeiters collectively express the concerns of the era in which the new note was conceived. It is an expression of the digital age, that of digital design, streamlined aesthetics and advanced security features which will define the beauty of the new note.

Rehashing the look and feel of bygone eras is akin to turning our backs on the present and what defines it while diluting the superior craftsmanship and artistry of the past, which saw us through to the present, and allows a thing, our paper currency, to remain a viable and cost effective means of transaction with secure monetary devices.

The negative and pessimistic responses to modern currency designs upon unveiling appears all too often fired in single shot retorts, off the cuff, offering no honest sense of reason. It smacks of guttural, opinionated resistance to the unfamiliar and unconsidered aspects of what makes it good beyond the surface.

 

Pablo, in post #8 of this thread, I posted a link to the Department of the Treasury web site for the new money. On this site you can download free educational materials, PDFs, which have high resolution images. It's the same source from which Coin World would have taken their information from.

TOO FEW people are even reading the materials produced by the Treasury about the new money. Most of the threads I cited above contain links I posted in them to this readily available education material online for the public to divulge. Do have a look at the interactive web site and downloadable materials.

NewMoney.gov [Department of the Treasury]