Monday/ the new Benjamin is blue

IMG_8970 sm — The sun is just lighting up the snow caps on the mountains below our Boeing 757 this morning. This is somewhere between Seattle and Denver, I’m not exactly sure where !

IMG_8980 sm2 — The old ‘Benjamin’ is on the top and new one with the bluish tint and fancy holographic ribbon and orange bell, below. There’s a watermark of Benjamin Franklin in the white space. The orange jar with a bell on it has a lot must have taken several drops of ink to print onto the note!

IMG_8984 sm2 — And here are the backs of the bills.

I checked again today at lunch time with the bank if they had new $100 bills, and they did. The teller emerged from the vault with a crisp new stack of one hundred $100 bills (so : $10,000; enough to choke a horse?) and peeled off two for me. The new bills have a blue appearance and is not radically different from the old – but it does have some nice touches of color with the blue and the orange.

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