feature originally intended as a deterrent to counterfeiting currency with laser printers.
Honestly, the USA is something special. So they do this, instead of putting modern anticounterfit (like polimer notes with transparencies) measures onto their notes.
Our notes have several anti-counterfeit measures. But it’s pretty easy to print up money that won’t pass scrutiny, but will be spendable at busy nightclubs and such. Well… It used to be easy. Now printer/scanners won’t even work if they detect currency.
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Honestly, the USA is something special. So they do this, instead of putting modern anticounterfit (like polimer notes with transparencies) measures onto their notes.
I think it isnt to stop it, it is to get a conviction.
This is what I mean. It’s bolting the stable door after the horse has bolted. This lists the security features on a $5 note, and here’s for a £5 note.
In addition to not in lieu of. The US works very hard on preventing counterfeiting, including the creation of the Secret Service.
Our notes have several anti-counterfeit measures. But it’s pretty easy to print up money that won’t pass scrutiny, but will be spendable at busy nightclubs and such. Well… It used to be easy. Now printer/scanners won’t even work if they detect currency.