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Old September 20th 05, 03:37 PM
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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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Old September 20th 05, 06:38 PM
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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

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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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Old September 20th 05, 07:13 PM
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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.

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