Counterfeit "Super Dollar"

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Small Scanner Picks Out North Korean 'Super Dollar'
These are supposedly so well done that even the experts can't really tell
They have the red and blue specks, the thread, the watermark, the raised printing.. all of that

Looks like the only way to tell if it's a fake is this:

The paper it is printed on contains no starch and doesn't reflect ultraviolet light, which is one sign of a fake.

Or with a machine:

U.S. paper money is printed with magnetic ink, but that's also used for many fraudulent bills. But on real bills, the ink is distributed in a consistent pattern whose magnetic resonance can be mapped.

The magnetic map is stored in the D500, as well as three other maps containing ultraviolet, infrared and other measurements taken from legitimate bills, Gonzalez said, at the Cebit show in Hanover, Germany. Scanning a bill takes less than one second.



I can only imagine the work that went into sort of reverse engineering our bills.. And I don't understand is how they're doing this so perfectly without original plates

 

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Beware the Supernote! - The Political Machine - Your Political Battleground!
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A close look shows the printing on a supernote is slightly lighter than that on a genuine note. The bills were printed on North Korea's intaglio-process offset printing presses bought in the 1970s. The machines are used by governments worldwide to print

 

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Asia Sentinel - Tracking the North Korean Supernote

And more..
a Swiss manufactured optically variable ink or O.V.I. On the right-hand-corner of every redesigned ten, twenty, fifty and one hundred dollar bill is a denomination number printed in O.V.I. Shift it one way and it turns greenish bronze. Turn it another and it appears to be black.

According to University of Georgia associate professor Stephen Mihm, who has written extensively about counterfeit currencies, a U.S. Treasury Department official told him that North Korea has purchased a green-to-magenta (close to black) O.V.I that comes close to duplicating the U.S. color change effect.

But not close enough for Kowloon. When given both bills it took the couple about two minutes to confidently select the phony bill – “bad color!” ‑ and advise that it be taken to the nearest bank for confiscation. In Wanchai, a Western Union clerk, equally used to handling massive amounts of foreign currency, immediately picked out the phony bill. Asked why, she said it just didn’t quite feel right.

 

[LowThudd]

Small Scanner Picks Out North Korean 'Super Dollar'
These are supposedly so well done that even the experts can't really tell
They have the red and blue specks, the thread, the watermark, the raised printing.. all of that

Looks like the only way to tell if it's a fake is this:

The paper it is printed on contains no starch and doesn't reflect ultraviolet light, which is one sign of a fake.

Or with a machine:

U.S. paper money is printed with magnetic ink, but that's also used for many fraudulent bills. But on real bills, the ink is distributed in a consistent pattern whose magnetic resonance can be mapped.

The magnetic map is stored in the D500, as well as three other maps containing ultraviolet, infrared and other measurements taken from legitimate bills, Gonzalez said, at the Cebit show in Hanover, Germany. Scanning a bill takes less than one second.



I can only imagine the work that went into sort of reverse engineering our bills.. And I don't understand is how they're doing this so perfectly without original plates

More than likely gov't sponsored. Even a releatively poor nation, such as N. Korea has nearly unlimited resources at their disposal. All it took was the desire to do so, and a bit talented worker initiative(probably unpaid labor even).

 

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More than likely gov't sponsored. Even a releatively poor nation, such as N. Korea has nearly unlimited resources at their disposal. All it took was the desire to do so, and a bit talented worker initiative(probably unpaid labor even).

Yeah. I've heard that some third world countries try to reverse engineer automobiles, even.. . Crazy