NEW LOOK FOR THE $100 USA NOTE

Benjamin Franklin just got a makeover, said Brian Fung in WashingtonPost​.com. About 3.5 billion new $100 bills recently entered circulation, featuring a fresh design that adds new anti--counterfeiting measures and technologies to the C-note for the first time in 17 years. Among its new security features are a blue security ribbon and Liberty Bell icons that change their look when the bill is tilted. The new design also includes raised printing along Ben Franklin’s shoulder and microprinting along his jacket collar. The bill’s back also has a new look—it “features a much larger denomination indicator” and shows the rear of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, rather than the front. The change is “meant to force would-be counterfeiters to change all of the plates they use to print fake money, an expensive undertaking.”