Even our new currency is made to look like the Euro

[sirs]

Since I don't have access to any hundreds (left my other wallet in the Porsche), all I have to go by is the pictures presented.  Blue strip or not, it still provides a kind-of-a demarcation in the bill, similar to how the Euro has been segmented. 

And one last time, since this is all personal perceptions with no right or wrong answer really, using both the prior U.S. bill with the "new fangled" one, the newer one demonstrates a (dare I say it) obvious reach towards looking more like the Euro than not

[kimba1]

not that I do this
but the best would be the $20 not the $100
most cashiers will only use the pen for the $20 ,the $100 has too many problem to be able to pass as easy.

and the pen is easy to trick with a fine spray of aquanet.

and the thread can be made by creating a faint image with a high grade printer with a good graphics program.

remember it doesn`t have to be exact to trick a cashier.

but I`m only guessing-I have knowledge of american counterfitting

[Universe Prince]

That "blue strip" probably won't be visible, IIRC. I think that's the embedded Mylar strip, enhanced to show it's location in the sample.

Actually, I think it will be visible. Look here: http://www.newmoney.gov/newmoney/Default.aspx

[Xavier_Onassis]

I fail to see what is wrong with US currency slightly resembling the Euro, or what is wrong with making it harder to counterfeit, which is what the changes clearly do. The Euro is rather attractive, as money goes, and the denominations are marked with huge letters and different colors and sizes, which make it easier for the blind or nearsighted to deal with.

 I see no advantage in having money that is easily counterfeited by Shiites in the Bekaa Valley. Does anyone?

[sirs]

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[Xavier_Onassis]

The complaint is that the $100 bill resembles the Euro, which it does only slightly.
I fail to see why the new bill is not an improvement on the ones it replaced in every way.

Sirs is clearly a moron, so I wasn't expecting any validation from him  on anything.

[sirs]

The complaint is that the $100 bill resembles the Euro, which it does only slightly.

Thank you for finally conceding the point, though transparent minimizing effort is duely noted

I fail to see why the new bill is not an improvement on the ones it replaced in every way.

The point was never on the improvement, as it could have been improved without being made to look similar to the Euro

Sirs is clearly a moron, so I wasn't expecting any validation from him on anything.

Way to facilitate that dialog you so often complain is missing.  Give Xo a hand.  Especially considering that no one, including sirs, was asking for any kind of validation, to anything