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The Department of the Treasury has formally released a brand new blueprint for the $100 bill that will start to circulate February 10, 2011. The new design is strongly improved in terms of security measures, boasting the latest progressions in security technology that should make it pretty much insurmountable to forge.

“This bill incorporates the best available technology to ensure that we keep one step ahead of counterfeiters,” said Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner at a ceremony introducing the ticket to Washington.

In addition to its invention, the main feature of the ticket is a ribbon of blue security in three dimensions at the front; and it carries images of bells and the number 100 that move when handling the ticket. On the left side, the portrait of Benjamin Franklin is kept in the new bank note.On the back of the new note, you can find a sketch of Independence Hall, seen from the back of the building, while the note currently in circulation shows his backside. The reverse is also struck by the words “In God We Trust” (In God we believe). These four words are printed on all tickets since 1957, a year after their acceptance as official currency of the United States.

The US $ 100 bill has the biggest movement since 1969. The central bank (Federal Reserve) believes that two thirds of the notes are circulating outside of the United States. Even after the release of the new ones, the current banknote will still continue to be legal tender post February 10, 2011.