<Ul> <Li> March 25, 1996: The first major design change since 1929 took place with the adoption of a contemporary style layout . The main intent of the new design was to deter counterfeiting . New security features included a watermark of Franklin to the right side of the bill, optically variable ink (OVI) that changed from green to black when viewed at different angles, a higher quality and enlarged portrait of Franklin, and hard - to - reproduce fine line printing around Franklin's portrait and Independence Hall . Older security features such as interwoven red and blue silk fibers, microprinting, and a plastic security thread (which now glows red under a black light) were kept . The individual Federal Reserve Bank Seal was changed to a unified Federal Reserve Seal along with an additional prefix letter being added to the serial number, w . The first of the Series 1996 bills were produced in October 1995 . </Li> <Li> February 2007: The first $100 bills (a shipment of 128,000 star notes from the San Francisco FRB) from the Western Currency Facility in Fort Worth, Texas are produced, almost 16 years after the first notes from the facility were produced . The shipment makes the $100 bill the most recently added production to the facility's lineup . 4.6 billion notes were produced at the facility with series 2006 and Cabral - Paulson signatures, including about 4.15 million star notes . </Li> <Li> October 8, 2013: The newest $100 bill was announced on April 21, 2010, and entered circulation on October 8, 2013 . In addition to design changes introduced in 1996, the obverse features the brown quill that was used to sign the Declaration of Independence; faint phrases from the Declaration of Independence; a bell in the inkwell that appears and disappears depending on the angle at which the bill is viewed; teal background color; a borderless portrait of Benjamin Franklin; a blue "3D security ribbon" (trademarked "Motion" by Crane Currency) on which images of Liberty Bells shift into numerical designations of "100" as the note is tilted; and to the left of Franklin, small yellow 100s whose zeros form the EURion constellation . The reverse features small yellow EURion 100s and has the fine lines removed from around the vignette of Independence Hall . These notes were issued as Series 2009A with Rios - Geithner signatures . Many of these changes are intended not only to thwart counterfeiting but to also make it easier to quickly check authenticity and help vision impaired people . </Li> </Ul> <Li> March 25, 1996: The first major design change since 1929 took place with the adoption of a contemporary style layout . The main intent of the new design was to deter counterfeiting . New security features included a watermark of Franklin to the right side of the bill, optically variable ink (OVI) that changed from green to black when viewed at different angles, a higher quality and enlarged portrait of Franklin, and hard - to - reproduce fine line printing around Franklin's portrait and Independence Hall . Older security features such as interwoven red and blue silk fibers, microprinting, and a plastic security thread (which now glows red under a black light) were kept . The individual Federal Reserve Bank Seal was changed to a unified Federal Reserve Seal along with an additional prefix letter being added to the serial number, w . The first of the Series 1996 bills were produced in October 1995 . </Li> <Li> February 2007: The first $100 bills (a shipment of 128,000 star notes from the San Francisco FRB) from the Western Currency Facility in Fort Worth, Texas are produced, almost 16 years after the first notes from the facility were produced . The shipment makes the $100 bill the most recently added production to the facility's lineup . 4.6 billion notes were produced at the facility with series 2006 and Cabral - Paulson signatures, including about 4.15 million star notes . </Li> <Li> October 8, 2013: The newest $100 bill was announced on April 21, 2010, and entered circulation on October 8, 2013 . In addition to design changes introduced in 1996, the obverse features the brown quill that was used to sign the Declaration of Independence; faint phrases from the Declaration of Independence; a bell in the inkwell that appears and disappears depending on the angle at which the bill is viewed; teal background color; a borderless portrait of Benjamin Franklin; a blue "3D security ribbon" (trademarked "Motion" by Crane Currency) on which images of Liberty Bells shift into numerical designations of "100" as the note is tilted; and to the left of Franklin, small yellow 100s whose zeros form the EURion constellation . The reverse features small yellow EURion 100s and has the fine lines removed from around the vignette of Independence Hall . These notes were issued as Series 2009A with Rios - Geithner signatures . Many of these changes are intended not only to thwart counterfeiting but to also make it easier to quickly check authenticity and help vision impaired people . </Li>

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