[capecodcarl]

I've always wondered what incentive counterfeiters even have for trying to copy these new bills. I have several $100 bills from around 20 years ago that I keep in a safe as an emergency reserve and they're still legal tender as far as I know. Why wouldn't counterfeiters just continue to counterfeit the older bills?

[seanmcdirmid]

Most one hundred dollar bills are used overseas, where your old ones wouldn't be accepted in most places but a careful bank. Even in the USA, merchants will refuse bills that they aren't comfortable verifying.

[alexeisadeski3]

I think that the anti counterfeiters are planning decades ahead with each revision.

Even the older Benjis are still very hard to counterfeit - all of these new changes are targeted almost exclusively at North Korea's advanced counterfeiting program.

So decades ahead.

[Wingman4l7]

Are you referring to the Superdollar?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar

[alexeisadeski3]

Yep! :)

The North Korean (supposed) counterfeiting operation is pretty fascinating all around.