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"Arrest ties Pyongyang to counterfeit $100 bills"
Arrest ties Pyongyang to counterfeit $100 bills
North Korea's government is producing high-quality counterfeit $100 bills and is working with criminal groups in China to sell the fake U.S. money internationally, U.S. officials say. at http://www.washtimes.com/national/20...1229-5045r.htm |
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There was a programme about this on UK TV several months ago, the North
Korean government do produce vast numbers of counterfeit USA bills that are "impossible " to spot as being fake. Billy wrote: Arrest ties Pyongyang to counterfeit $100 bills North Korea's government is producing high-quality counterfeit $100 bills and is working with criminal groups in China to sell the fake U.S. money internationally, U.S. officials say. at http://www.washtimes.com/national/20...1229-5045r.htm |
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note.boy wrote:
There was a programme about this on UK TV several months ago, the North Korean government do produce vast numbers of counterfeit USA bills that are "impossible " to spot as being fake. Billy I remember seing an article in one of the numismatic weeklies (Coin World?) back in the late 1990s that showed a side-by-side comparison between a 'real' series 1996 $100 FRN and one of those 'supernote' fakes. They are indeed VERY GOOD quality fakes, but since the ('hostile foreign government', now known to be North Korea) counterfeiters used the same materials and processes in making them that the BEP does, including *hand engraved* gravure plates, they got lots of the pickey little details wrong. (The quote from the BEP engraver on that show on one of the cable networks a few years ago was "If is designed on a machine, it can be duplcated by a machine".) In that article, one of the easiest ways that I could find to tell a real one from a fake was that on a real one, in the upper left part of the note, the first 'R' in the word 'RESERVE' lines up exactly with the center of the first '0' (zero) in the '100' directly above it, while they are misaligned on the fakes. If you are not looking specifically for these kinds of flaws, you'll likely never tell them apart other than for a potential slight sense that "something isn't totally right here, but I can't quite pin it down". Now, the PRK's engravers may have already corrected some of these flaws, so YMMV. -- ___________________________________________ ____ _______________ Regards, | |\ ____ | | | | |\ Michael G. Koerner May they | | | | | | rise again! Appleton, Wisconsin USA | | | | | | ___________________________________________ | | | | | | _______________ |
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