New 100 Dollar Bill Uv Light

Black light and counterfeits examining the 100 bill.

New 100 dollar bill uv light. The hundred dollar bill just got a makeover and it s making its big debut today. The current design 5 note entered circulation on march 13 2008 and features subtle background colors of light purple and gray. Spotting a fake 100 00 bill is simple and easy to do when you know what to look for. The teflon strip had been added to the bills in 1988 when the bep did a minor redesign of the notes.

The words usa and 100 should alternate on the thread. In its first redesign since 1996 the new design 100 note features additional security features including a 3 d security ribbon and color shifting bell in the inkwell. If you hold any bill up to the light you will see a security strip on an authentic bill. It is present in most of the us bills excluding the small denomination 2 and 1 bills old and new and is the primary security feature used by money counters and bill checkers to identify fakes.

It will have usa and the bill s denomination aka usa 20 running vertically on the bill. Currency the most obvious difference is the size and off center location of franklin s portrait. Two watermarks are featured in the 5 note and they are visible from both sides of the note when held to light. You can see the security strip with repeating micro printed text usa 100 on the 100 bill usa 20 on the twenty dollar bill and so on.

I saw the fake 100 00 that was given to my customer and you could tell t. The new design 100 note also includes a portrait watermark of benjamin franklin that is visible from both sides of the note when held to light. The security strip is visible when viewed with a light bulb held behind the bank notes. The 5 note includes an embedded security thread that glows blue when illuminated by uv light.

The 100 is the second most common bill in circulation behind only the 1 bill says to yahoo finances. A 100 bill printed after 1990 should have a security thread on the left hand side that is only visible when you hold the bill up to the light. The 100 bill technically a 100 federal reserve note issued in the mid 1990s was quite different from the earlier series of 100s in u s.