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chowdy

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I want to see this magical $100 bill

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070826/changing_ben_franklin.html?.v=6

$100 Bill to Get High-Tech Face Lift
Sunday August 26, 10:17 am ET
By Martin Crutsinger, AP Economics Writer
C-Note to Get High-Tech Makeover; New Bill Expected to Go Into Circulation Next Year

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After six decades in which the venerable greenback never changed its look, the U.S. currency has undergone a slew of makeovers. The most amazing is yet to come.

A new security thread has been approved for the $100 bill, The Associated Press has learned, and the change will cause double-takes.

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The new look is part of an effort to thwart counterfeiters who are armed with ever-more sophisticated computers, scanners and color copiers. The C-note, with features the likeness of Benjamin Franklin, is the most frequent target of counterfeiters operating outside the United States.

The operation of the new security thread looks like something straight out of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This magic, however, relies on innovations produced from decades of development.

It combines micro-printing with tiny lenses -- 650,000 for a single $100 bill. The lenses magnify the micro-printing in a truly remarkable way.

Move the bill side to side and the image appears to move up and down. Move the bill up and down and the image appears to move from side to side.

"It is a really complex optical structure on a microscopic scale. It makes for a very compelling high security device," said Douglas Crane, a vice president at Crane & Co. The Dalton, Mass-based company has a $46 million contract to produce the new security threads.

The redesign of the $100 is about one-third of the way complete. The bill is expected to go into circulation late next year.

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MisterHero-DX

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It sounds like lenticular graphics. Those are cool. Smile

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chowdy

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do they involve lentils?
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burning_phoneix

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Why hasn't the US changed the greenback in so long?

Saudi Arabia gets new currency every time a new king comes to power. :|

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Like the Groundhog Phil.

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We have changed our bills a lot in the past decade. It was the six decades before the current decade that nothing changed.
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Keazu

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sounds like the work of the devil to me, boys. this can only lead to a battle of the bills.

i am personally siding with jackson on this one
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