A little more than 220 years after his death the Federal Reserve is giving Benjamin Franklin a facelift; new and colorful $100 bills with high-tech anti-counterfeit measures will begin circulating on Tuesday, according to the New York Times.

It took over a decade to design the all of the new features that help make the new bills so difficult to counterfeit. On top of that problems with production delayed the release of the bills by two and a half years. One billion of the bills that were first made had unwanted creases in them and later on in production smeared ink slowed things down, according to the Associated Press.

The $100 bill was last redesigned in March 1996; the most notable new feature added at that time was the picture of Franklin was greatly enlarged. The new currency will still have Franklin on the front and Liberty Hall on the back. New to the bill is a disappearing Liberty Bell in an ink well and a three-dimensional security ribbon, the Associated Press reports.

"The 3-D security ribbon is magic. It is made up of hundreds of thousands of micro-lenses in each note," Larry Felix, the director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, told the Associated Press. "This is the most complex note the United States has ever produced."

Counterfeiting of $100 bills has become an enormous problem over the years. Roughly one-half to two-thirds of the notes currently in circulation are being used outside of the United States according to estimates by the Federal Reserve, the New York Times reports.

"That's something that's not going to be able to be reproduced on a photocopy machine, that's for sure, or even on the computer," Dennis Forgue, a currency expert, told the New York Times.

Currently the Bureau of Engraving and Printing have produced 3.5 billion of the new notes that will be brought to the public by armored trucks on Tuesday since the Federal Reserve was not affected by the government shutdown, according to the Wall Street Journal.

If you are itching to get a look at the new bill and your local bank doesn't have them in stock yet, or if $100 is a bit out of your price range, the Federal Reserve has put up a virtual bill so you can check out all of the new features at the following link.