The New $100

I don't know why they can't just indent the bill with Braille.

As for uniformity, they had to change the bills that impacted the everyday economy. People are outright suspicious of any $100 bill to begin with, but a simple $20 is usually overlooked.

I think our notes would have to slowly evolve into something like that. They have been the way they are for so long that they cannot just change overnight.

If they changed too drastically, the uninformed majority would either think that the new notes are counterfeit or that they represent a conspiracy for a unified world currency.

Unified currency? That's not necessary. One can just put microchips in the $100 bills to track stored wealth around the world.

He's rolling in his grave. I thought the recent notes were bad.
This one is worse. Wonder how much these are going to cost to print up ?

I like it, just won't see too many of them.

Now that I know it's an inkwell I can see how it fits with the quill in the background, but it's not something that I would identify easily. The problem with our currency, from an artistic standpoint, is that they are putting function over form, when both (in my opinion) should be given equal weight. They take the old design, slap on new features that often don't blend well at all. Also, our currency does not have a uniform design scheme like it did when all the notes were small-portraits (now those were terrible in terms of identification and anti-counterfeiting but they were beautiful, in this case, form over function).

As for the Monopoly comment, Monopoly money is printed with two inks: one color and black. This makes them look cheap. We could easily make beautiful banknotes that incorporate many different shades of the same color to increase discernability. Also, when we redesign banknotes, the redesigns should be released at the same time!

I like it. I think the new series (5,10,20,50 and now 100) are an improvement over the bland green previously used. I have always thought that the U.S. notes are one of the most basic/bland/ un-exciting notes in the world.