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If a cheque is dishonoured for any reason, the bank on which it is drawn must promptly return the cheque to the depositor's (payee's) bank, which will ultimately return it to the depositor. The depositor's bank will debit the amount of the cheque from the depositor's account into which it had been deposited, as well as a service fee.
This made counterfeiting bank notes harder still, at least in the short term, and in 1803 the number of forged bank notes fell to just 3000, compared to 5000 the previous year. [16] Banks asked skilled engravers and artists to help them make their notes more difficult to counterfeit during the same time period, which historians refer to as "the ...
Banknote processing is an automated process to check the security (or authenticity) features and the fitness of banknotes in circulation, to count and sort them by denomination and to balance deposits.
The asterisk, or "star" following the serial number indicates this is a replacement note for one that was misprinted or damaged in the printing process. A replacement banknote , commonly referred to as a star note , is a banknote that is printed to replace a faulty one and is used as a control mechanism for governments or monetary authorities ...
The production of paper money by the State Bank is under the exclusive authority of the Central Bank, and is issued by the Brazilian Union. [28] By that reasoning, the paper on which the money is printed is the property of the State, and its intrinsic value belongs to the person.
Mutilated currency is a term used by the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) and the Bank of Canada to describe currency which is damaged to the point where it is difficult to determine the value of the currency, or where it is not clear that at least half of the note is present.
Second, it became customary to write the amount in words as well as in numbers to avoid mistakes and make it harder to fraudulently alter the amount after the cheque had been written. It is not a legal requirement to write the amount in words, although some banks will refuse to accept cheques that do not have the amount in both numbers and words.
The Bank of England, which is now the central bank of the United Kingdom, British Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories, has issued banknotes since 1694. In 1921 the Bank of England gained a legal monopoly on the issue of banknotes in England and Wales, a process that started with the Bank Charter Act 1844, when the ability of other banks to issue notes was restricted.