THE
CREATION
A year and a half of intensive work
by Tari, designing the M$B, documenting proof of
its legality and securing start-up funding,
culminated in the single M$Bs and the M$B Uncut
Sheets being printed by the ABNC in December of
1988. Within the following year, the complete
Limited Edition of M$Bs and Uncut Sheets had
been issued into circulation to the I.A.M. for
marketing and sales.
During Tari's initial design
research and development, hundreds of
influential people were surveyed to find their
answer to the question, "If there was to be a
real million dollar bill in US currency, what
would it look like?" Everyone surveyed agreed
that a US $1,000,000 Bill must look much
better than a $20, $50 or $100 bill,
and it should be beautiful and impressive in
every way. It was also a common response that a
million dollar bill should visually stand above
and apart from the regular currency in
circulation today. Thus, the idea of
incorporating additional pastel background
colors was a popular concept, but still have the
traditional black ink on the front and green ink
on the back like real US Federal Reserve Notes.
In his research, Tari also
discovered that the US $10,000 bills of long ago
(the largest denomination ever circulated in
this country) were not only very beautiful but
they had intense gold and yellow colors on them.
Based on these responses, and keeping in mind
the legal requirements to create such a
realistic looking Bill, Tari and the ABNC design
team created the very popular I.A.M. Million
Dollar Bill, which has come to be considered an
artistic masterpiece in the sophisticated world
of bank note printers.
After seven months of intense
creative work by Tari and the design team at
ABNC, the Engraved Steel Printing Plates for
both sides of this Bill were completed. The
I.A.M. Million Dollar Bill was then printed in
Banknote Multi Colors using the largest most
sophisticated banknote printing presses in the
world, located at the ABNC facility in Chicago,
Illinois USA. Each Bill is Individually Serial
Numbered and was created with High-Tech Security
Features to prevent counterfeiting, including
Micro-Printed Patriotic Inscriptions (eight
years before the US Treasury began using
micro-printing on the new $100, $50 and $20
Dollar bills), Invisible Florescent Ink Messages
and Special Security Paper (that glow under
ultra-violet light).
In it's 200+ year history, the
World Renowned ABNC had never created anything
like the I.A.M. Million Dollar Bill, and never
will again, because all printing plates have
been destroyed by the ABNC to prevent any future
printing of this popular Limited Edition
Collectible.
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