I get to see counterfeits every so often.
While polymer notes are harder to do to a 'good' standard, they do pass
casual inspection by shops.
Counterfeits range from plain colour laser copies to ones with the vignette
pattern suspended with sticky tape, to the crazy of slicing notes and
assembling them from small segments cut from other notes.
100's seem to be rarely copied, hard to get right and are looked at closer
50's common
20's turn up now and then but not done by the more commercially oriented
people.
Some of the old paper counterfeits were so good the reserve bank kept
sending them to the printers as examples of poor quality magnetic ink in
circulation, before it was realized that they were printed by someone else.
cya, Andrew...
-- not an official view of my employer, just my own comments, please don't
quote me, any such quote a violation of applicable copyright, blah blah blah
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Matyjewicz
<snip>
> They should consider the plastic currency used in Australia.
> The bills are
> a soft, paper-like plastic and have a hologram on them,
> which, I understand
> is impossible to counterfeit. They seem to have sold this
> concept to other
> countries also.
>
> George
>
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