If you were a U.S. counterfeiter, you’d probably want to counterfeit the $100 bill.
Why?
Because if you printed a smaller denomination bill, it would probably be easier to pass — because hardly anyone would take the time to scrutinize it — but you’d have to print (and pass) a lot more of them in order to make a lot of money.
On the other hand, if you printed a larger denomination bill, you could make a lot of money very quickly, but your counterfeit bills would be much harder to pass, because they’d be scrutinized very carefully by banks and merchants.
That’s why [more...]