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The new $100 bill and the war against counterfeiting
- kierank 17y agoRelated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation You can see it clearly on the left of the banknote in the article. My favourite however is the use of it on the musical notes on the old Elgar £20 note.
- ugh 17y agoWow. That $100 bill sure is ugly. I get tradition, I get that being green is what makes the Dollar the Dollar, but there sure must be ways of preserving greenness and some traditional elements without making it so ugly. The Euro banknotes have many of the same security features [1] and they aren’t ugly. Kitsch, maybe, but rather that than this. (Quite astonishing, actually, that Euro coins and bills are in general not ugly. Considering what a giant clusterfuck those discussions between the different members of the Eurozone must have been.) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_banknotes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_banknotes