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Numismatics portal. Money portal. v. t. e. Counterfeit money is currency produced outside of the legal sanction of a state or government, usually in a deliberate attempt to imitate that currency and so as to deceive its recipient. Producing or using counterfeit money is a form of fraud or forgery, and is illegal in all jurisdictions of the world.
Counterfeit United States currency. Counterfeit 100 dollar bill, series of 1974 but probably made later. Over-stamped with "Contrefaçon" on both sides. On display at the British Museum, London. Counterfeiting of the currency of the United States is widely attempted. According to the United States Department of Treasury, an estimated $70 ...
The word counterfeit frequently describes both the forgeries of currency and documents as well as the imitations of items such as clothing, handbags, shoes, pharmaceuticals, automobile parts, unapproved aircraft parts (which have caused many accidents), watches, electronics and electronic parts, software, works of art, toys, and movies. [1]
Superdollar. A counterfeit Series 1974 one-hundred-dollar bill on display at the British Museum. After being detected, the bill was overprinted with a rubber stamp to indicate that it is a fake. A superdollar (also known as a superbill or supernote) is a very high quality counterfeit United States one hundred-dollar bill, [ 1 ] alleged by the U ...
Counterfeit money is imitation currency produced without the legal sanction of the state or government. Producing or using counterfeit money is a form of fraud or forgery. Counterfeiting is almost as old as money itself. Plated copies (known as Fourrées) have been found of Lydian coins which are thought to be among the first western coins. [60]
A currency detector or currency validator is a device that determines whether notes or coins are genuine or counterfeit.These devices are used in a wide range of automated machines, such as retail kiosks, supermarket self checkout machines, arcade gaming machines, payphones, launderette washing machines, car park ticket machines, automatic fare collection machines, public transport ticket ...
Counterfeit banknote detection pen. A counterfeit banknote detection pen is a pen used to apply an iodine -based ink to banknotes in an attempt to determine their authenticity. The ink reacts with starch in wood-based paper to create a black or blue mark but the paper in a real bill contains no starch, so the pen mark remains unchanged.
The International Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeiting Currency ( French: Convention internationale pour la répression du faux monnayage) is a 1929 League of Nations treaty whereby states agree to criminalize acts of currency counterfeiting. It remains the principal international agreement on currency counterfeiting.