U.S. Government Unveils Redesigned $100 Bill

The new design for the $100 note, revealed today by officials from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve Board, and the U.S. Secret Service.

We detect a certain bewilderment in the crinkly, enlarged visage of Benjamin Franklin that peers out from behind a thicket of security features on the front of the new $100 bill. Unveiled this morning during a ceremony at the Department of the Treasury’s Cash Room (and via a splashy YouTube video), the redesigned c-note includes two new “advanced counterfeit-deterrent security features”: first, a blue 3-D security ribbon that whizzes by Franklin with images of bells and 100s that move and change from one to the other as you tilt the note.

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