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Message:: [QUOTE="doug444, post: 1586448, member: 38849"]I saw this article on <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.marketwatch.com" rel="nofollow">www.marketwatch.com</a> and thought it might interest currency collectors: "...The U.S. Government printed 3 billion $100 bills in the 12 months  ended Oct. 31, according to a Tuesday note from Nicholas Colas,  ConvergEx Group chief market strategist. That’s 100% more than the average production of $100 bills over the  past 5 years, and 50% more C-notes than $1 bills printed in the same  period, according to Colas.  Hard cash holds a special place in global finance as the preferred  mechanism for drug, illegal arms and tax evasion transactions, Colas  notes, and $100 bills are the preferred denomination. While the use of  smaller denomination bills has fallen in recent years with increased use  of credit and debit cards, demand for $100 bills appears to be growing.  Part of the sharp increase in the number of $100 bills may be because  of delayed production of a newer version of the note, which has had  technical problems. So a lot of the newly printed bills may not yet be  in circulation.  And, per the Bureau of Printing and Engraving,  “Over 90 percent of the notes that the BEP delivers each year are used  to replace notes already in, or taken out of circulation..."  [more][/QUOTE]