pan, how is snopes wrong? If you are capable of holding the bill up to a blacklight then you have the bill in front of you, in which case you can see the denomination anyway. The paper serves the purpose of making counterfeiting more difficult, and only that purpose. The changes that have been made are merely to make it even more difficult to counterfeit. Being more difficult to take out means it's... more difficult to take out. Nothing more. Nonetheless, I've taken it out before, I know what it looks like, and it's nothing special. It doesn't have any secretive properties that allows anyone to track you or see how much money you have through your clothes.
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