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Counterfeit Euro detection
Does anyone know a URL that explains the security features of
Euro notes, i.e. a webpage that explains how to spot a counterfeit Euro note? Casey |
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Counterfeit Euro detection
Casey wrote:
Does anyone know a URL that explains the security features of Euro notes, i.e. a webpage that explains how to spot a counterfeit Euro note? http://www.euro.ecb.int/ - http://www.euro.ecb.int/en/section/recog.html lg Gernot |
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"Gernot Egger" wrote in message ... Casey wrote: Does anyone know a URL that explains the security features of Euro notes, i.e. a webpage that explains how to spot a counterfeit Euro note? There was a news item yesterday telling how many dud notes there are. There are apparently even people counterfeiting the coins! (I suppose that give the 15 different designs and the fact that most people will have seen few outside their own country's you could probably pass a coin with micky mouse on it unchallenged). So they asked people to spot the counterfeits (on a "which of these two is counterfeit" basis) and apparently almost no-one got it. This surprises me, I am confident that I could tell a counterfeit note if I was asked to look (unless it was so good that the bank would be fooled) but TBH I doubt that I'd notice if I got one in my change as I just don't have the time (or the courage) to check every note that the cashier gives me. BTW probably the best way to tell a 'real' note is to look for the 'two-tone' ink used on the 50s and above. I suspect that this is beyond the counterfeiters (or perhaps, is not cost effective) tim http://www.euro.ecb.int/ - http://www.euro.ecb.int/en/section/recog.html lg Gernot |
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tim schrieb: "Gernot Egger" wrote in message ... Casey wrote: Does anyone know a URL that explains the security features of Euro notes, i.e. a webpage that explains how to spot a counterfeit Euro note? There was a news item yesterday telling how many dud notes there are. There are apparently even people counterfeiting the coins! (I suppose that give the 15 different designs and the fact that most people will have seen few outside their own country's you could probably pass a coin with micky mouse on it unchallenged). So they asked people to spot the counterfeits (on a "which of these two is counterfeit" basis) and apparently almost no-one got it. This surprises me, I am confident that I could tell a counterfeit note if I was asked to look (unless it was so good that the bank would be fooled) but TBH I doubt that I'd notice if I got one in my change as I just don't have the time (or the courage) to check every note that the cashier gives me. BTW probably the best way to tell a 'real' note is to look for the 'two-tone' ink used on the 50s and above. I thought the 50€ was the most common forgery. I suspect that this is beyond the counterfeiters (or perhaps, is not cost effective) tim One problem is that, because the contracts to print notes had to be divided between all the countries for political reasons, the security measures used in the banknotes had to be reduced to a subset that all the printers could handle technically. T. http://www.euro.ecb.int/ - http://www.euro.ecb.int/en/section/recog.html lg Gernot |
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In message , Thomas Peel
writes tim schrieb: I suspect that this is beyond the counterfeiters (or perhaps, is not cost effective) tim One problem is that, because the contracts to print notes had to be divided between all the countries for political reasons, the security measures used in the banknotes had to be reduced to a subset that all the printers could handle technically. I don't think so -- I got the impression that they tried pretty much to get every anti-counterfeit technique that all the countries used in their own notes. Consider - - the feel of the paper - the watermark - the watermark barcode which identifies the value of the note - the metal strip - the part-printing of the design on the two sides of the top corner so you only see the whole value when it's held to the light (and requires that the two sides be printed in perfect register) - the ultraviolet fluorescence - the holograms on all the notes - the optically-varying ink on the higher values - microprinting - the checksum on the serial numbers The only trick I've seen which wasn't used on the euro was printing the serial number with variable sized numbers, as is done on Czech and some Scottish notes. -- Arwel Parry http://www.cartref.demon.co.uk/ |
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I got the impression that they tried pretty much to get every anti-
counterfeit technique that all the countries used in their own notes. I also think that the techniques embarrassed the USA into updating American notes. Witness the new $20 note with colored ink for the very first time. We'll probably never see holograms because of the uproar from the bill changing machine companies. Casey |
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Arwel Parry wrote:
I don't think so -- I got the impression that they tried pretty much to get every anti-counterfeit technique that all the countries used in their own notes. They skipped the Dutch tactic of listing all the measures in fine print on the note itself, so anyone could tick them off as they checked for them. I always wondered if counterfeiters there would edit that text to excise mention of the anti-counterfeiting measures they didn't bother to duplicate. miguel -- See the world from your web browser: http://travel.u.nu/ |
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Counterfeit Euro detection
In Italy a prinitng house has been found with million
of 50eur banknotes. apparently they are good enough and have different serial numbers. "Casey" ha scritto nel messaggio ink.net... Does anyone know a URL that explains the security features of Euro notes, i.e. a webpage that explains how to spot a counterfeit Euro note? Casey |
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