New $100 Bill design

The new $100s I read are expected in the first quarter of $100. And those of you who asked for something new instead of the same old? Well, the new $100 is reported to feature microlenses... and microlenses are the security feature that makes the image on the bill shift when you move the bill :kewl: Here's a quote from the article:

"The new security effort combines micro-printing with tiny lenses -- 650,000 for a single $100 bill. The lenses magnify the micro-printing in a truly remarkable way. Move the bill from side to side, and the image appears to move up and down. Move the bill up and down and the image appears to move from side to side."

Link to the article: http://www.heraldtribune.com/articl...0551?Title=New-100-bill-will-be-tough-to-fake

Rumored to be counterfeit-proof.... :kewl:

 

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it should be late 2010 :hail:

 

One more question on this subject, Is this design a done deal or may
It be changed??

 

it's a done deal.

 

Does anyone here know of a good time that they "think" the new $100 will be unveiled (not released into circulation)? I have been waiting to see this design since the first redesigned $50 bill all the way back in 1997, because the $100 bill did not have the low-vision numeral (the large number in the bottom right corner on the reverse of the $5-$50 bills. Then there was a rumor that the Series 1999 $100 bills would be slightly redesigned to carry the numeral, and then they scrapped that idea, figuring that a redesigned NexGen $100 bill would come out soon enough that they could modify the design for the large numeral.

I'm interested though, with the low-vision numeral on the new $5 bill being purple, I am wondering if, just for yet another minor security features, if the NexGen $100's low-vision numeral will be a color other than green. I also wonder if the huge 100 will be a bit smaller than the current $10, $20 and $50 bills's low-vision numeral, but just made darker in more white space to be easier to see in the dark, seeing as they have to cram three numbers next to the Independence Hall picture as oppsed to only two on the $10, $20, and $50, and of course, the $5 being a one numeral bill, that was likely the reason they were able to enlarge the $5's low-vision numeral even more, because there was enough room to enlarge a single digit numeral the way it was, with the Lincoln Memorial.

Anyway, I hope they unveil the new kodachrome $100s in time for them to go into circulation later this year, instead of 2011, but last I heard was, that the BEP was hoping to due a few more tests with the new $100 design the first two months of this year, so who knows? We might be looking at a release date being in 2011.

 

This document from last January says that the Kodachrome $100 was then expected to go into circulation in early 2010--but it also says that the BEP would need to print them for six to nine months before the release date in order to create an adequate supply. Since none have yet been printed (at least, as of the November production report), it's looking like the release must now be targeted for late 2010 at the absolute earliest.

Hopefully, the 2010 version of that document will be issued soon; it'll presumably give us some more insights into the current schedule.

Typically, the unveiling of the new design doesn't happen until the notes are already in production...we'll probably see them in the BEP's monthly reports before we know what they look like.

 

well that a good i don't mind waiting ;]

 

Um, that's NOT the new design; the $100 bill already looks like that (and has since 1996).

Whoever made the Salvador Dali comment... well I hope you realize that those circles are not actually on the bill; they're just magnifications of the bill highlighting the various security features.

Anyway until I actually see what the new design looks like, I can't really vote on it one way or the other. I can say I've not been too fond of the 1996 design; I think the portrait of Franklin makes him look tired and possibly hungover; the portrait on the older design was a lot more dignified. They should try to do a maginfication of that instead! The portraits on all the other redeisgns (5, 10, 20, 50) all came out a lot better.

 

Thats to bad!! Not looking forward to it

 

No how, no way!

Highly resistant to counterfeiting, perhaps.

But make no mistake, what one man can do, another can copy, and what one government (USA) can produce, another (North Korea) can as well. It may take a while, but count on it, the counterfeiters will catch up, and another official version will be needed.

 

You missed the sarcastic smiley face with the comment!

 

one more day left!!!!!

 

From what I saw in Coin World the new design looks exactly like the old, with a few new security features integrated. Not much to get excited about. Would be nice to be as innovative as we were 150 years ago when we had a multitude of beautiful designs and each bill was a masterpiece in miniature. Can't say that now.
Guy~

 

Well, from what I read about a year ago, the Treasurer was at a school somwhere once,and talked to the children about U.S. money, and she said "The design of the new $100 bill is still a secret, but I can tell you that, its very colorful" So I think it will look somewhat different from the current $100 bill.

I'm thinking that the new $100 bill will have at least two different main colors to it, as they did with the $50 bill when they put both red and blue to make an image of a flag on the front. What the image would be on the new $100 is anyone's guess, however, someone said on Where's George? a few years back "Why do I have the feeling that the image on the new $100 would be the Liberty Bell or the Liberty Bell would be involved in the design?" So maybe thats an idea. Who knows? Gotta wait till we see it I guess.

 

New $100 bill

 

it will have green and peach color to it.

 

Here it is
http://online.wsj.com/media/new100_cs_20100421102124.jpg

 

New $100 Educational Materials - Downloadable PDFs

from NewMoney.gov

There are four downloadable PDFs on the order form pages. Just click the little PDF icon and you can download the new $100 Poster, brochure and educational materials for free. The files are big (8 MB to 15 MB range) and may take a while to download depending upon your connection and download rates. Some of the files download as zipped files that can be unstuffed.

 

In a word ugly!! Very disappointed!