jeudi 3 août 2017

The Printing Of New Notes

By Alxa Roffel


October 2013 saw a new era for the hundred dollar notes in US. Newly designed colourful 100$ notes were led into circulation. This of course was done to get rid of the counterfeit notes and was good news for shops and businesses which were willing to verify the money.

It was announced that the 100 bill will be printed and circulated by the February of 2011, but somehow the proposal got reject due to problems in the notes and was postponed later to be circulated from October 2013. The 100$ US currency note is one of the most counterfeited note outside United States and therefore the notes were reprinted after long research to get notes with new security features implied on them.

The printing of the new bills were to be initiated by the Fed's in the year 2003, however, since then it has been chipping away. Later in 2011, the 100$ notes were scheduled again for circulation but there was some problems in the agency and the date was postponed, due to unwanted creases. It definitely helped the Federal reserves to take a look again at the notes to make sure they are secured and encrypted.

The three dimensional security is made up of thousands of micro lenses, used in every bill or note. It is also declared as one of the most complicated note ever prepared by the United States. It is a ribbon that runs through the new 100$ US note vertically.

Later in 2013 a newly designed 100$ note was circulated, which was earlier to be released in 2011 but it was not published due to some issues with the printing. There were some new security features introduced in the newly circulated notes, here are the newly added features.

Also there was no problem in getting rid of the old stack as they still went on to be legal, but after the announcement of the new redesigned notes, the old notes that were collected by the Federal Reserve were destroyed and replaced. This was done to avoid any kind of confusion with the notes in the ATMs. The security feature introduced in the notes consisted of the following.

It has a new blue colour ribbon, three dimensional, which was not printed on the notes instead woven in the paper. There was also security strip added to the left of the face of Benjamin Franklin and it was only visible when viewed against the light. There is also a faint image visible in the black space on the right, which is visible on both the sides of the note. As you tilt the note back and forth, the liberty bell image and the number 100 number keep alternating.

The security features of the new printed notes were discussed for around a decade as the Federal Reserve wanted to have a 100$ US currency that is extremely difficult to counterfeit. Considering the fact that the 100 US dollar currency note is one of the most counterfeited notes outside the country, it was a necessary step. Use of micro printing and Raised printing was also done to add to the security feature of the currency.




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