.................................click on picure to viewApril 21, 2010
U.S. officials presented the new design banknotes of $ 100
U.S. authorities have formally presented today the new design of one of the most popular denominations in the world - the dignity of $ 100 in the treatment they received from February 10 next year, according to a distributed joint press release the U.S. Federal Reserve, Treasury and Secret Service of the country.
On the new banknotes will be all the same portrait of Benjamin Franklin, but there are some differences. Thus, the new banknote is protective blue tape with 3D-effect, objects which move in opposite directions when you look at it from different angles.
In addition, among the innovations - a figure of a bell in brown ink, with a bell (Liberty Bell) disappears at a certain angle.
"As in previous cases, the redesign of American currency, this bill has incorporated all the advanced technology that only can be made for protection from counterfeiters," - commented on the new one hundred dollar bill U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
At the moment, the world produced about 6.5 billion banknotes old model. As before, the bill's design will be treated along with the old, and in their holders will not be any problem if you pay them, assured the Fed chief Ben Bernanke.
He also complained that the fight against counterfeiting of U.S. banknotes is becoming increasingly difficult with each passing year because of the development and availability of technology, as well as increasing circulation U.S. currency outside the country. So, outside of America is drawn to 2 / 3 hundred-dollar bills.
$ 100 banknote is the largest U.S. bank notes currency in domestic circulation, and one of the most popular in the world. Along with cuts of 50, 20, 10, and $ 5, it periodically changes the design.
AP
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