The Benjamins

[rinue]

In February of next year, the Treasury is rolling out new $100 bills that have all kinds of technology and colors and it's basically a transformer and I'm extremely excited because I have been jealous of other countries' currency for ever so long.* Ciro rightly points out the appropriateness that the bill thus updated is Benjamin Franklin's -- Franklin, the printer, who created such wonderfully intricate designs for the 1756 shilling notes, using leaf patterns to make them counterfeit resistant, and whose printed money was used right through the revolution.

I continue to work on the script and to make obsessive lists of things I'm going to do to the apartment if and when it is ever appropriate to do these things to the apartment. In the meantime, I'm trying to donate a lot of my long-unused art supplies to the elementary school around the corner. If not, perhaps I'll chop them up and glue them to things.

*I have collected coins since I was a small child, and whenever I have said I was visiting the British Museum I meant I was visiting the currency room in the British Museum.

Comments

[treehavn.livejournal.com]

We used to have a Ben Franklin printed book at the Library of Secrets. It smelt fantastic, and I was always improbably more pleased with it that with older, more weightier texts. Probably because I had a crush on him-as-character in James Morrow's The Last Witchfinder.

[rinue.livejournal.com]

Thank you for reminding me that I want to read that.

[valancy.livejournal.com]

I have never seen old printed US bills that I can recall; gorgeous!