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m>, "Trei, Peter" writes:
>That's the scenario which is (semi) worrying. As
>the tagged bills wear, some fraction of the RFID
>transponders will inevitably fail. When this happens,
>is the bill declared invalid? Will merchants regularly
>check all incoming cash for a good tag? Is a bill
>with a bad tag presumed to be counterfeit? Can
>it be exchanged?
>
I can't speak for other countries, but the U.S. already has
well-defined procedures for trading in damaged currency. For example,
if you have >3/5 of the bill, you get full value; between 2/5 and 3/5,
you get half-value; below that, you get nothing. I believe that such
exchanges can be done at any bank, though I could be wrong about that.
Anyway -- I'd assume that similar procedures would be put in place for
tagged bills. Validation might inlude a waiting period to see if the
tag corresponding to that serial number shows up.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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