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100 Dollars Federal Reserve Note, large portrait
| Issuer | Federal Reserve System |
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| Year | 1996-2006 |
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| Value | 100 Dollars (100 USD) |
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| Obverse description | Central intaglio vignette of Benjamin Franklin set within an enlarged oval frame, representing the redesigned large-portrait format introduced with the 1996 series. The Federal Reserve district seal and Treasury seal appear to either side of the portrait, with the denomination numerals in the lower corners and serial numbers printed in green at upper left and lower right. Fine guilloche underprint patterns in green and black fill the background. |
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| Reverse lettering | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN GOD WE TRUST INDEPENDENCE HALL ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS |
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The 1996 redesign was the first major overhaul of U.S. currency since the 1920s, driven almost entirely by the scale of counterfeiting operations — particularly the "superdollar," a near-perfect forgery believed to have originated in Iran or North Korea that had been circulating since the late 1980s. The enlarged portrait, color-shifting ink in the numeral, and embedded security thread were a direct response to that specific threat, not cosmetic modernization.
Roughly two-thirds of all U.S. currency in circulation at any given time during this series existed outside the United States — the hundred was, and remains, the preferred large-denomination store of value in dollarized economies from Ecuador to Cambodia.