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• US DOLLAR SERIES OF CURRENCY

Us Dollar Series Of Currency

This material has a distinctive feel, according to Independent Banker. Today currency is only printed up to serial number 96000000, so solid 9s can only be found on older issues.The “paper” (it’s not really paper) from which the bill is made is a special blend of 75% cotton and 25% linen. Solid Serial number 9s are extremely rare. Stack all the bills you have and see if any are the wrong size, even if only slightly.Not every series of currency is printed to full capacity, so the higher numbers tend to be rarer than the smaller numbers. All seven US bills are 2.61 inches wide by 6.14 inches in length and 0.0042 inches thick, and each weighs 1 gram. Serial Numbers The unique combination of eleven numbers and letters appears twice on the front of the bill.The size and weight of US paper currency are tightly controlled.

However, this tends to take too much time and is not very effective. Nine times out of ten, your fingers will be accurate fake detectors.You can also place each bill next to a real bill of the same dollar amount and see if something doesn’t match. If it doesn’t feel right, set it aside for further checking. Give each bill a quick rub between your fingers.

To make it even faster, there are only two worth checking: the $100 dollar bill and the $20 bill.The $100 note is the most frequently counterfeited. There are some notes can you pretty much ignore, and others that should you should check carefully. Take a close look, especially at the borders, to see if there are any blurred parts in the bill.Here is a tip that can speed up the whole process. Laser and inkjet printers are rarely capable of the same level of detail. Authentic bills are extremely detailed, made using die-cut printing plates that are capable of creating impressively fine lines.

This will at least filter out amateur forgers and kids using color photocopiers. The other bills are very seldom counterfeited, and agonizing over checking for one or two fake $1, $2, or $5 bills is not worth the time and effort, unless you have reason to believe that you have been given a significant quantity of them.Assuming that you have found a bill/bills that don’t “feel right” what should you do next? If you have more than one of these suspect bills and they are of the same denomination, check for identical serial numbers. So you would want to examine $100 and $20 bills more carefully. The Jackson is popular with domestic criminals because it’s a common bill dispensed by ATMs and is not usually examined with the degree of scrutiny of larger bills, Secret Service officials say. According to Fraud Fighter’s How to Detect a Counterfeit $20 Bill, the $20 bill is the popular choice of forgers inside the continental USA. Surprisingly, fake 100 dollar bills are not the most common counterfeit notes found here inside the US.

The “wholesale” price, is $20. Understandably, the $100 dollar bill has the most security, as it is the highest value bill and brings in the biggest profit when forged.To digress for a moment, what profit do you think forgers make on a fake hundred? In Peru, the average selling price for a fake $100 in bulk, i.e. There are seven smart security features built into US bills. We then have to use one of the more sophisticated anti-forging features built into US paper currency.

This trend has changed who produces bad bills.The $100 bill was redesigned in 2013. Digital counterfeiting is outpacing traditional printing because today’s high-performance, low-cost printers offer high resolution and improved color matching of copied currency. Not a bad business, if you can get away with it.Of the counterfeit currency seized in the United States last year, 61% was manufactured using digital printing, with the remaining counterfeit currency manufactured with traditional, or “offset”, printing. At a “manufacturing” cost of five dollars per bill, that’s a 300% markup. Including labor, the total cost comes to between $3 and $5 that’s a profit of at least $15 per fake $100 bill.

A watermark is an excellent security feature, as a counterfeiter is very unlikely to manufacture his own paper. You can check out the full descriptions of these features on the US Federal Reserve website - The watermark image is caused by the US Mint using different thickness of paper, with light areas being the result of thinner paper. We will first deal with how to counterfeit-check a $100 bill.To apply the more sophisticated checks for a fake $100, let’s look at the easiest of these to check, the Portrait Watermark. It is now an outstandingly sophisticated bill.Amongst all the paper money notes in the world.As all the other smaller bills have various subsets of the security features of the new $100 note. The new $100 bill has the most advanced protection features of all of the seven US bills.

These are embedded in the “anthills” of the edge pattern. On the outer borders of the bill, there are small ”100”s on the left and right edges of the bill. Along the Founding Fathers’ golden quill there is the minute printing of “ONE HUNDRED USA” This is along the right-hand side of the outline of the feather

This stripe is also called a “thread” because it is not printed over the top of the note, but “threads” through the paper, over the top layer of paper and under this top layer.Let’s plunge into the deeper mysteries of the 3D security ribbon. The 3D security ribbon is the bright blue vertical stripe, about 6mm wide, in the center of the $100 at the right of Ben Franklin’s portrait. You are going to need a really good quality magnifying glass, or even better, a watchmaker’s loupe and plenty of patience.We have saved the best for last, the 3D security ribbon, because this feature is also the most complicated to check.

When you rotate the note around its vertical center (called “yaw” in aircraft – like the bill was trying to flap its wings), the 100’s move left to right, not up and down – unexpected and very weird. These 100's move in an unusual way.Make sure you have good strong lighting. You will see three rows of “100”s when you look at the bill with its left edge towards you. As stated by Snapily’s 3D Technology Gives US Money a Makeover, it is made up of hundreds of thousands of “micro-lenses” that create a hi-tech effect.Move the bill while focusing on the broken blue strip in the center.

The site also shows some very useful pictures of how you twist and turn the bills to make the security features possible to see.A good quality counterfeit-detection pen will also have a UV light source, usually built into the lid.When you press a button on the clip of the lid, an UV LED switches on. (I found the “100”s easier to see.) The bells should move in the same non-intuitive way as the “100”s do when the bill is rolled or yawed.You can check out the full descriptions of all these features on the US Currency website. These “bells” are of the same type as the color-changing “liberty bell” in the inkpot. If you examine the “100”s very carefully while yawing and rolling the bill, you should see the “100”s turning into “bells”. The trick is, the “100”s move back and forth along the opposite axis from that axis along which the bill is being rotated.It gets better.

For a real $100, the UV spot will be much brighter on the paper than on theBill. Also, a genuine bill will absorb UV light while a dud will reflect UV.Place a piece of ordinary paper overlapping the bill under test and move the UV light-spot back and forthFrom the paper to the bill.