Capital Briefs: New $100 Bills Put In Circulation by Fed

The Federal Reserve Board filled the first orders for newly designed $100 bills Monday.

The U.S. Bureau of Printing and Engraving has printed 850 million of the new bills, which were overhauled for the first time since 1929 in an effort to curb counterfeiting.

The government is redesigning the five smaller denominations and will release one a year through 2001, when the new $1 bill will be unveiled.

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