I'll not use 'mystery links' in the future.
What, you think I would re-direct to another site?
My bad, I'll use the long URL from now on.

I wouldnt send someone to any other site anyway, maybe you have,
I never even thought of it before.

DiverDave is an honest and decent person and would never send someone to any other site. Signed siligut.

Now, DiverDave, if you will just post your visa card number and that little code on the back, I will charge you $5 for this service, which BTW, is good for a full year.

I will send you a star later...sorry the CC number wouldnt buy much these days...

there are some here who have. It is just safer not to click.

the mob Lufthansa heist in Goodfellas.

"How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1

They'll scrap the release and come up with something new.

It's not unprecedented; master dies for the Canadian dollar coin were stolen back in 1987 while en route to a branch mint, so the design was scrapped and the "Loonie" design took its place.

The theft of these bills means more than just some cash gone awry; with examples of the new bill in criminals' hands months before the actual release, they'll have time to work out ways around the new anti-counterfeiting methods before the bills hit the streets.

This design has already been delayed three times (it was supposed to follow the new $50.00 years ago but trouble with it led to the $10.00 and then the $5.00 being redesigned first, then there were further problems with some anti-counterfeiting features that delayed it a third time) so another six month delay isn't going to hamper release plans too much. They'll come up with a new back design or something similar, or move some features around on the front, making the stolen money useless and worthless.

When the current $100 bill was introduced, it happened a month or so before a major mineral show, where folks from all over the world came to buy and sell mineral specimens. I was in that business at the time, on a fairly small scale. All transactions at that show, which was held in a hotel in Southern California, were typically made with $100 bills, since many of the dealers were from out of the country.

There was a lot of confusion, because there were both the old style and new $100 bills circulating. A lot of people from other countries weren't sure about the new bills. They distinctly preferred the old design, because it was familiar to them.