New Benjamin

[Condor]

Reading the drudge Report this morning and they had an article about the new $100 Franklin. Wonder how long it will take the bad guys to conterfit this one??

[Wanderer]

Reading the drudge Report this morning and they had an article about the new $100 Franklin. Wonder how long it will take the bad guys to conterfit this one??

 

I wonder how long it will take the good guys to earn one.

[Condor]

Not long at the current buying power value.....

[Zane]

Hang on there and I'll run off a few and give 'em a test run!

(Hey Secret Service, JUST KIDDIN"! )LOL heh, heh.....

 

[Wizard765]

Hey look!! There's some color in them there greenbacks...

[Flyinfool]

I give it a couple of days after release for the first fakes to come out.

Maybe a month for the good fakes.

[dynodon]

They had a problem with some of them folding in the process of printing, making them useless. One story said it could take years to weed out all the bad ones as there was no automated way to do it, just have to go through the sheets one at a time, and there were millions of them!

 

Wonder how many will slip through and be worth scads in the future?

[Yammer Dan]

Fake ones will probally beat the earned ones out there!!!

[hig4s]

The problem they have been having with bad $100s is they have been made from real $5s so the paper is the correct type and the checking pens used at stores don't catch them.. But if you hold them up to the light, you can see they were originally $5s..

 

Because of this, it seems to me the way they should have redesigned bills is with each denomination a slighter different size, and smaller denominations would be the smaller bills. Then if they washed and reprinted a $5, it couldn't be mistaken for a larger bill because it would physically be too small.

 

Base everything on the size of the $100, make the $1s a 1/4 in shorter and 1/8 narrower, $5 1/8 in shorter and 1/8 narrower, $10 same width but 1/4 in shorter, and $20 same width an 1/8 in shorter. And if they wanted to wash $100s and reprint them as $500 of $1000 dollar bills, well generally only banks take those. They would have to be pretty ballsy to try that.

[Flyinfool]

The problem they have been having with bad $100s is they have been made from real $5s so the paper is the correct type and the checking pens used at stores don't catch them.. But if you hold them up to the light, you can see they were originally $5s..

 

Because of this, it seems to me the way they should have redesigned bills is with each denomination a slighter different size, and smaller denominations would be the smaller bills. Then if they washed and reprinted a $5, it couldn't be mistaken for a larger bill because it would physically be too small.

 

Are you trying to throw logic and/or common sense into the government thought process? That could take down this whole country.

[Aussie Annie]

Are you trying to throw logic and/or common sense into the government thought process? That could take down this whole country.

 

 

 

Now there's a scarey thing

[dmoff1698]

Base everything on the size of the $100, make the $1s a 1/4 in shorter and 1/8 narrower, $5 1/8 in shorter and 1/8 narrower, $10 same width but 1/4 in shorter, and $20 same width an 1/8 in shorter. And if they wanted to wash $100s and reprint them as $500 of $1000 dollar bills, well generally only banks take those. They would have to be pretty ballsy to try that.

 

The American Society for the Blind has been pushing for this for years. Seeing impared folks are always getting ripped off for making change.

[bongobobny]

Now there's a scarey thing

 

No, we do not use the words sense and common together in the same sentence any more...

[OldBear]

I wonder how long it will take the good guys to earn one.

 

Less time than it will take to make a copy of one I'll bet....