Even our new currency is made to look like the Euro

[sirs]

April 21 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke introduced the latest remake of the $100 bill, featuring advanced security designs and a larger portrait of founding father Benjamin Franklin.

The bills, viewable at http://www.newmoney.gov/, will go into circulation in February 2011.

The new look, aimed at thwarting counterfeiters, has several new security features, including a ?3-D Security Ribbon? and an image of a bell on the front of the note that, when tilted, changes in color from copper to green. The reverse side of the bill includes a new vignette of Independence Hall in Philadelphia.

?As with previous U.S. currency redesigns, this note incorporates the best technology available to ensure we?re staying ahead of counterfeiters,? said Geithner, whose signature appears on the bills.

The bills also retain from the previous version a portrait watermark of Franklin, who signed the Declaration of Independence, as well as a security thread and a ?color- shifting? numeral 100, officials announced at the unveiling ceremony at the Treasury in Washington.

?When the new design $100 note is issued on Feb. 10, 2011, the approximately 6.5 billion older design $100s already in circulation will remain legal tender,? Bernanke said. ?U.S. currency users should know they will not have to trade in their older design $100 notes when the new ones begin circulating.?

The $100 bill is the largest denomination note printed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, a division of the Treasury. Larger denominations of $500, $1,000 and more are no longer issued but remain in circulation, especially among collectors.


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[Religious Dick]

To bad that can't print our currency so it spends like a Euro....

[kimba1]

I remember the last time they changed the franklin ,some bank robber thought the bank switched them with fakes so he dumped them in the gutter.
the bank was able to recover all the money.

[Xavier_Onassis]

The US Embassy in Teheran in 1977 had a press for printing US bills. At the time of the hostage crises, these were confiscated by the Revolutionary Guards and ended up in the Bekaa Velley of Lebanon, where they printed millions of dollars of US bills from legitimate plates.

This explains why they are spending so much effort in redesigning the money. I fail to see anything wrong with the new $100 bills at all: it seems like a good idea.

[sirs]

Why make it look like the Euro, if the goal is simply "redesigning"?

[kimba1]

it just the next step in security

the more colors the more costly it is to copy.

looking like the euro shouldn`t be a deterent if it works.

the real question should be ,is the euro easy or harder to copy?

[sirs]

looking like the euro shouldn`t be a deterent if it works.

The inferrence is far more transparent, I'm afraid, Kimba.  Why can't it be made to work, without looking like the socialist Europe, that most realists can perceive this President wants us to become

[Universe Prince]

Why make it look like the Euro, if the goal is simply "redesigning"?

Maybe I haven't seen the most recent version of a euro bill. The new $100 bill design does not look like a copy of a euro bill to me.

[sirs]

Perhaps we're having a semanatic misuderstanding.  I never claimed copy, as in identical.  I've been referencing, looks like, as in similar.

[Universe Prince]

It doesn't look all that similar to me either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New100front.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EUR_100_obverse_%282002_issue%29.jpg

Tell me why I'm wrong.

[sirs]

You're wrong in that the prior $100 bill had no similarity what-so-ever to the Euro.  Now, as "I" can tell, there's much more geometry in the new bill, similar to the Euro, with both bills appearing to be segmented.

Given the prior to after views the American $100, it distinctly looks far more similar to the Euro now

I guess we're perceiving things differently, and why I never claimed a copy

[kimba1]

after looking at the euro I see the problem

more accurately it doesn`t look like the euro ,it looks like most currency in the world finally.
meaning it`s multi-color.
seriously I`ve often heard the U.S. has the most boring looking money around.

[Universe Prince]

You're wrong in that the prior $100 bill had no similarity what-so-ever to the Euro.  Now, as "I" can tell, there's much more geometry in the new bill, similar to the Euro, with both bills appearing to be segmented.

I have no idea what you mean by that.

Given the prior to after views the American $100, it distinctly looks far more similar to the Euro now

Looking at both of them, I still don't see any real similarity. Both are rectangular and have a large sans-serif 100 on them (the 100 euro bill on the obverse and the 100 dollar bill on the reverse). Other than that, and that isn't much, they don't seem similar in aesthetic design at all.

I guess we're perceiving things differently, and why I never claimed a copy

Forget about "copy". Just let it go.

[sirs]

You're wrong in that the prior $100 bill had no similarity what-so-ever to the Euro.  Now, as "I" can tell, there's much more geometry in the new bill, similar to the Euro, with both bills appearing to be segmented.

I have no idea what you mean by that.

As I said, you're obviously perceiving things differently.  LOOK at the new dollar & euro, and you'll see precisely what I mean.  I've specifically referenced how they're now similar, compared to when they weren't.  Maybe it'll help if you lay all 3 bills for visual inspection








Notice how the blue strip segments the U.S. $100 now, similar in that the Euro is segmented??  Notice all the cool colors the U.S. $100 has now, similar to the Euro?  Notice how it's much close in appearance to the Euro now, than the prior??

If you don't wish to accept these new similarities, no biggie.  I've made my point

[Amianthus]

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.