What Do You Think of the New $100 Bill?

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It should be made out of plastic, dammit.

Fnarf on April 26, 2013 at 2:38 PM

Ben Franklin looks nauseous.

DOUG. on April 26, 2013 at 2:43 PM

"checks-cashed places"? Do you mean a bank, or would you like to confess to visiting a House of Payday Loans?

jasonsewall on April 26, 2013 at 2:43 PM

Links to Flash-dependant sites suck.

NotSean on April 26, 2013 at 2:45 PM

What's that line of code running down the middle? Are we in The Matrix?

I give this an awkwardly-placed inkwell out of ten.

ScrawnyKayaker on April 26, 2013 at 2:47 PM

Does the stripe down the center turn red when exposed to levamisole?

Sir Vic on April 26, 2013 at 2:50 PM

this is disgusting.

Even if it's mostly for Russians trying to get money they stole out of Russia.

You want a real $100 or $200 bill - look at the new designs Canada has!

Will in Seattle on April 26, 2013 at 2:52 PM

The best anti-counterfeiting bill in the world won't do any good if we don't stop accepting old bills.

Banna on April 26, 2013 at 2:54 PM

The new 100 bill reminds me of the Hungarian postage stamps I collected as a child.

Next our money will be total worldified with pictures of birds and flowers.

Supreme Ruler Of The Universe on April 26, 2013 at 2:58 PM

I kind of love it. Bold portrait that includes the shoulders and comes down over the bottom border. I like the quill too. Is that a little liberty bell on the inkwell? Come on. That's darling. It beats bald eagle clip art that I'm sure was passed around at their design meetings.

Mattini on April 26, 2013 at 3:06 PM

Why is he being stabbed in the neck with a feather?

Simply Me on April 26, 2013 at 3:06 PM

@10: " It beats bald eagle clip art"

Ugly snort-laugh.

MLM on April 26, 2013 at 3:08 PM

If Ben Franklin had been a professional skateboarder in 1986, this would have been his graphic.

Dougsf on April 26, 2013 at 3:10 PM

I like the new Winston Churchill £5 note better. But it's OK I guess. I don't see very many $100 bills anyway.

Fifty-Two-Eighty on April 26, 2013 at 3:11 PM

@6 FTW

BTW, why does everyone feel the need to have an extreme reaction to new money designs? It's a fucking hundred dollar bill, who gives a fuck what it looks like? Look at Ben Franklin's face. He's exasperated with you for making such a big deal of it.

beef rallard on April 26, 2013 at 3:16 PM

@Banna the old ones are taken out of circulation pretty quickly. Paper bills just don't last that long. So if anyone shows up with a bunch of old bills, it's pretty obvious they're fake.

What we really need is polymer bills like Canada: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_ban…

We should introduce those, withdraw the dollar bill, add a dollar coin, and get rid of the penny.

arbeck on April 26, 2013 at 3:16 PM

That man is probably paying for everything in ones and Indian-head pennies. The first time I encountered the new twenties, I was working at a hotel, and someone was paying a $200 charge with ten of the new bills. I sighed, realizing that if I had just been given the most ridiculous-looking forgery in the world, my crazy boss would try to take it out of my paycheck, but decided not to fight the guy about it.

@8 - The old bills will wear out and be removed from circulation. Eventually, it won't be an issue.

MacCrocodile on April 26, 2013 at 3:18 PM

All this resistance to the new bill is just racism. Against green people.

Minneapolitan on April 26, 2013 at 3:43 PM

Poor Ben is sort of a bilious shade of green. That was okay when the whole bill was green, but now he's got a sickly green head on top of a purplish overcoat. In fact, the colors on the whole bill are a hideous travesty.

That said, I don't really care much. As long as the banks or gas stations take them if I ever happen to have one in my wallet, I'm fine. Maybe its sheer ugliness will reduce counterfeiting.

Reverse Polarity on April 26, 2013 at 3:51 PM

So when do we get a new bill with President Clinton on it?

Will in Seattle on April 26, 2013 at 4:00 PM

At least it has the great Ben Franklin on the face, I was a bit worried that it would have a picture of current traitor and chief.

@1
I though you quit in a cry baby fit of rage.

Cascadian Bacon on April 26, 2013 at 4:02 PM

i was in a bank behind a Canadian woman who requested only the "new bills, with colours," because she "can't tell your american money apart, it all looks the same."

this new bill (while ugly) will further help the u.s. monies approach an international standard. . .

on April 26, 2013 at 4:22 PM

can we at least get money that is different sizes for different amounts already? At least that way blind people wouldn't have to worry about getting ripped off. they can even keep our money butt-ugly if they want. And how about a $200 and $500 bill already?

high and bi on April 26, 2013 at 4:32 PM

Big head Franklin is fine, but I wish they'd ditch the MS Office "Word Art" typography. Bleck.

Dade on April 26, 2013 at 5:54 PM

@6 - Brilliant.

Jubilation T. Cornball on April 26, 2013 at 8:39 PM

@21 That's "traitor-in-cheif," dimwit.

ScrawnyKayaker on April 26, 2013 at 8:45 PM

The real issue is that $100 is the largest denomination. The U.S. used to issue notes in denominations all the way up to $100,000 but withdrew everything above $100 because of tghe drug trade. It's time to raise the cap to $500. It's also time to get rid of pennies, nickels, and quarters, and go to dimes, half-dollars, dollars, and $10 coins.

Either that, or do away with cash entirely and let the banks take a 2%-4% rakeoff on everything, and have every penny you spend traceable by the government. I'm sure the fuckwits of Seattle will go for Door #2.

Unbrainwashed on April 27, 2013 at 12:12 PM

all i know is i swoon every time i handle one of those newer tens. hamilton was a stone-cold fox. i take my time handing them over.

mr. herriman on April 28, 2013 at 12:11 AM

@28 - Not to be that guy, but the US didn't *exactly* issue $100,000 notes. They made a couple of gold certificates in the '30s, for use in the treasury, in that denomination, but the public never saw them.

What is an in argument in favor of issuing larger bills?

Dougsf on April 29, 2013 at 1:04 PM

#29, the argument is inflation. A $100 bill is worth what a $20 was worth when I was growing up. You could go to the grocery store and fill your cart with a $20 bill, and take the family on a vacation with two or three $100 bills.

Neither currency nor pocket change has kept up with inflation, which suits the banks just fine. They get a rakeoff on more and more transactions, and all kinds of people love to track everyone's spending. But you're fine with that, I'm sure.

I've gotten close to the point of rounding up to the nearest buck and refusing all change. Dollar bills are a joke, and $5 bills are getting there. Having the $100 as the biggest bill is ludicrous.

Unbrainwashed on April 29, 2013 at 5:23 PM

We need to destroy the penny and all its adherents.

Joel_are on May 2, 2013 at 10:52 PM

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