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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 437912, member: 11668&quot;]If the schedule hasn&#039;t slipped, then production of Kodachrome $100&#039;s should begin long before Bush leaves office, so they&#039;d have the Cabral-Paulson signatures.&nbsp; Most likely they&#039;d be called Series 2006, though I guess there&#039;s an outside chance of Series 2008 if the BEP&#039;s in a funny mood that day.</p><p><br /></p><p>A side effect of the timing is that, unlike the 1996 redesign, we won&#039;t get a chance to see crazy-high block letters on the $100&#039;s this time around.&nbsp; Over the next few years, the BEP will pretty much replace all $100&#039;s currently in circulation with the Kodachrome version, but that $100 production will be split between at least two series due to the change of signatures with the new administration.&nbsp; So, no repeat of the AB..Y serial block that we saw on the 1996 $100.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, note that the BEP and Fed *have* said they plan to replace the old $100&#039;s with the new version.&nbsp; This was done for all five denominations of the 1996 redesign, but has *not* been done for the first four Kodachrome denominations.&nbsp; Apparently the improvement in security features between the 1996 generation and the 2004 generation was slight enough that the Fed and BEP decided to allow the existing 1996-generation notes to continue to circulate until wearing out naturally, rather than shredding all old-design notes regardless of condition as they do for pre-1996 notes.&nbsp; But the Kodachrome $100 is getting a much greater security enhancement than the lower denominations did, what with the hologram and all.&nbsp; (Which is why I think there&#039;s an outside chance of it getting its own series date.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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