It's All About Updating the Benjamins

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Andrew Price
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April 22, 2010 • 1:57 pm PDT
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A grandiloquent video introducing the new $100 bill. Apparently this will help the mint stay a step ahead of the counterfeiters. Fun fact: About 75 percent of our $100 bills are held overseas.

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