It’s All About the Benjamin: Philly Featured Prominently on New $100 Bill


The upshot of the new $100 bill, besides the fact that it should be harder to counterfeit: Good old Philadelphia is center stage.

Look closer and you’ll see a certain cracked bell.

And a certain document, signed on July 4, 1776.

If you’re really into the new bills–and after that demonstration, who wouldn’t be–the Fed has put out a handy video on the new Benjamins.

Update [4:00 p.m.] Philly.com points out that the back of the bill, featuring Independence Hall, has gotten a redesign too.