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postaphis1 year, 9 months ago

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I wonder if the same techniques used for smaller denominations such as $5 bills would be spotted.

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  Dionys1 year, 9 months ago
  
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  It's not worth the trouble (read cost) to counterfit such a small bill.
  
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    postaphis1 year, 9 months ago
    
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    Agreed. Then who'd look? :-)
    
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      Dionys1 year, 9 months ago
      
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      But paying $6 to produce a $5 bill doesn't make economic sense, does it. It makes much more sense to make $6 100$ bills and flood the country with them.
      
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        postaphis1 year, 9 months ago
        
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        Yes, yes, you are correct. But then everyone looks closely at $100 bill notes, or at least I do because I don't see one that often. Who looks at a $5? As to cost to produce a fiver, I haven't the foggiest. Perhaps there is a profit in volume. ;-)
        
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    MVMc1 year, 9 months ago
    
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    Not so fast - I was a victim of a counterfeit $10 bill. I think it came from a small restaurant as change. Later a clerk at a fast food place (OK I eat out a lot ) and refused to take it. He could tell just by looking at it. Didn't use a pen or anything. So I took it to my bank for confirmation and they confiscated it.
    
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      SpazMat1 year, 9 months ago
      
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      Most situations were the counterfeit money is low denomination and easy to spot is where someone just scans it and prints it. It isn't huge business, but it seems to happen often enough that there was talk of have the printer manufacturers add an algorithm that prints some type of identification information into the image.
      I don't know if it went anywhere.
      
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