New $100 Bill

[Plutonic Panda]

Well it's coming. I'm sure most have already heard about it, but here's a thread for it anyways.

The US Federal Reserve just announced that its redesigned $100 bills will go into circulation on October 8.

From Yahoo: Meet the New $100 Bill, the World?s Most Popular Bank Note - Yahoo! Finance





Also another few reads:

New, high-tech $100 bill coming in October - Business on NBCNews.com

How The New $100 Bill Will Foil Counterfeiters | Popular Science

[MonkeesFan]

I do not know, it is ugly

[OKCisOK4me]

I'm amazed that you flip it and it's all of a sudden bigger than the front! lol

[Bunty]

I'm amazed that you flip it and it's all of a sudden bigger than the front! lol

It's counterfeit!

[zookeeper]

I wish the US would make our currency more colorful like in some other countries where it's looked at as works of art. I guess this is the biggest move toward more color, it's really high tech that's for sure.

[boscorama]

I'm amazed at how quick the old bills disappear after new ones are introduced.

[Larry OKC]

Really? I see the old versions of the various denominations almost daily. Hard to tell how effective the anti-counterfitting stuff is when they have multiple versions out there and each new design looks more and more like Monopoly money or counterfeit from the beginning...in other words unless you are looking for the security threads and other things, who can tell the real from the fake any more? They need to call in all of the old designs, replace them with the new. If you try to spend an old design after the turn in cut off date it can't be spent.

[Stew]

Who carries cash anymore? Cash is so obsolete.

[Praedura]

Who carries cash anymore? Cash is so obsolete.

These folks like cash.

[MonkeesFan]

Who carries cash anymore? Cash is so obsolete.

Not really, I still carry cash just in case my debit card does not work

[td25er]

I do not know, it is ugly

Who f'ing cares?

[jn1780]

I'm amazed at how quick the old bills disappear after new ones are introduced.

I don't think it takes a long time for "paper" money to find its way home to the mother bank(Federal Reserve) where its promptly destroyed.

[MonkeesFan]

Who f'ing cares?

You obviously care since you posted

[Mel]

I like the Thunder blue and orange on it.

[Plutonic Panda]

Keep an eye out for the new $100 bill on October 8, because if you have one and it has a low serial number, it could be worth a lot of money!

''When the Federal Reserve Board releases its new, redesigned $100 bills on October 8, how much do you suppose they'll each be worth? For some of them, much more than $100.
Depending on their serial numbers, their value to currency-collectors could go as high as $15,000 each, according to the Boston Globe.

The Globe explains that collectors view certain 8-digit serial numbers as "fancier" (meaning more rare, and thus more collectible) than others. The fanciest numbers, according to collectors, include ones exceptionally low: A new $100 bill with the serial number 00000001, for example, might fetch up to $15,000.

There will be more than one such bill, because each issuing Federal Reserve Bank prefaces the serial number with a letter code designating which bank produced the bill.
Other types of "fancy" numbers are highly sought after. These include "ladders," which have their numbers in sequence (e.g., 87654321), "repeaters," which have two sets of the same four digits (e.g., 41124112), and "solids," which have eight of the same digit (e.g., 44444444).

Dustin Johnston, director of currency for Heritage Auctions in Dallas, tells the Globe that other kinds of bills, regardless of their denomination or age, may also be collectible, depending on the fanciness of their serial numbers.

Got a fancy-numbered bill? To find out what it's worth, you can contact Heritage Auctions or another auction house specializing in currency; or you can consult CoolSerialNumbers.com, which maintains a regularly-updated want list of numbers being sought by collectors''

[kelroy55]

Who carries cash anymore? Cash is so obsolete.

I carry cash because I still like to save my change.

[Zuplar]

Keep an eye out for the new $100 bill on October 8, because if you have one and it has a low serial number, it could be worth a lot of money!

''When the Federal Reserve Board releases its new, redesigned $100 bills on October 8, how much do you suppose they'll each be worth? For some of them, much more than $100.
Depending on their serial numbers, their value to currency-collectors could go as high as $15,000 each, according to the Boston Globe.

The Globe explains that collectors view certain 8-digit serial numbers as "fancier" (meaning more rare, and thus more collectible) than others. The fanciest numbers, according to collectors, include ones exceptionally low: A new $100 bill with the serial number 00000001, for example, might fetch up to $15,000.

There will be more than one such bill, because each issuing Federal Reserve Bank prefaces the serial number with a letter code designating which bank produced the bill.
Other types of "fancy" numbers are highly sought after. These include "ladders," which have their numbers in sequence (e.g., 87654321), "repeaters," which have two sets of the same four digits (e.g., 41124112), and "solids," which have eight of the same digit (e.g., 44444444).

Dustin Johnston, director of currency for Heritage Auctions in Dallas, tells the Globe that other kinds of bills, regardless of their denomination or age, may also be collectible, depending on the fanciness of their serial numbers.

Got a fancy-numbered bill? To find out what it's worth, you can contact Heritage Auctions or another auction house specializing in currency; or you can consult CoolSerialNumbers.com, which maintains a regularly-updated want list of numbers being sought by collectors''

I work at a bank and will be getting a few of them. Always nice to have in case they turn into something collectible.

[ctchandler]

I try to spend cash whenever possible. I don't like using my credit card(s) and I don't like checks being treated like debit cards at most retailers. I don't disagree with the reasoning (9/11 when checks couldn't be sent by air for a week), I just won't write a check to a Walmart because of the debit concept. I do use a credit card when traveling (that's a must) and for gas locally or if I'm out of cash.
C. T.

[OKCisOK4me]

I carry cash because I still like to save my change.

I round my transactions up to the whole dollar, thus keeping the change in my account.

[venture]

I'm terrible with cash...so I just use the ol' debit card so I don't lose any of it. LOL

[tomokc]

The Brits are about to change UK pounds to a more durable, plastic-like note. They say it does well in the wash cycle, but not so much under a hot clothes iron.

[MWCGuy]

I am surprised they have not started putting expiration dates on cash.

[RadicalModerate]

I'm amazed that you flip it and it's all of a sudden bigger than the front! lol

It's the first sign of hyperinflation.

Plus it's confusing because the bigger it is, the less it is worth.
It's sort of a variation on that old mind game scientists play with little kids involving asking them whether they'd rather have a nickel or a dime.

And who drew that picture of The Liberty Bell (in the inkwell)?
Notice how much bigger the crack has gotten?
If it looked a little more "melty" it could have been done by Salvador Dali.
As it is, it looks more like an angel character from Yellow Submarine wearing cartoon bell bottoms.

[RadicalModerate]

These folks like cash.

Is the use of the word "Quarterly" on a banner about "Currency" an intentional pun?

[Dubya61]

Is the use of the word "Quarterly" on a banner about "Currency" an intentional pun?

and it's a picture of Jackson for the "Where's George" gathering!