If I wasn’t looking for it I never would have noticed that 20 is a movie prop. But even after looking for it I see nothing wrong with the one. American money is so cheaply made and lacking in serious anti-fraud features.
It only looks like US currency doesn’t have counterfeit protection features if you only see it in movies or in pictures there are actually a lot of little things that make it difficult to counterfeit. First is its made of a specific cotton linen blend that has a very distinct feel and if you handle cash regularly you can absolutely tell just by touch if it is printed on regular paper and there are markers you can buy that react with it to verify the material is correct. Parts of the bills are also printed in special color shifting holographic inks that would be very difficult to duplicate on a small scale. The hardest one though is there are lots of things that only show up on the bill when you hold it up to the light like a different portrait of the president on the bill in the lower right hand and a strip that is between the layers that has the denomination printed on it. There are also numerous other small things that add up to make counterfeiting quite difficult. They don’t do of of these on $1 bills though since its not worth counterfeiting anyway.
tldr; there is actually a lot of security features on US currency also I don’t know why I know all of this or why I’m bother to post it to shitpost.
You are very correct in everything you just said. 👍
Coming from a tech that has had to repair and rebuild cash bill validators, you missed a thing…
They also have specially placed printed yellow dots, in the patterns of star constellations, almost imperceptible to the human eye, but designed for the bill validators to quickly recognize.
Your bills are the same size? Is that not an accessibility nightmare? In Australia the sizes change with higher-value notes being wider than lower-value ones, helping vision-impaired people identify the right note. (In addition to the vibrant very different colours and tactile bumps.)
Yes, it legitimately is an accessibility nightmare.
There is a blind man I used to follow on YT. He is American and is pretty self sufficient. But since there are literally zero distinguishing features on our paper currency for blind people, he manages to know which bills he has by hoping others are telling him the correct bill in good faith and then organizing the bills in a particular order in his wallet.
Interesting. Indeed, our legit bills here in the USA are all the same size. I’ve actually seen that they do have a device that banks can use to stamp in Braille dots on the bills for blind people, but I’ve never seen a Braille stamped bill out in the wild. 🤷
If I wasn’t looking for it I never would have noticed that 20 is a movie prop. But even after looking for it I see nothing wrong with the one. American money is so cheaply made and lacking in serious anti-fraud features.
It only looks like US currency doesn’t have counterfeit protection features if you only see it in movies or in pictures there are actually a lot of little things that make it difficult to counterfeit. First is its made of a specific cotton linen blend that has a very distinct feel and if you handle cash regularly you can absolutely tell just by touch if it is printed on regular paper and there are markers you can buy that react with it to verify the material is correct. Parts of the bills are also printed in special color shifting holographic inks that would be very difficult to duplicate on a small scale. The hardest one though is there are lots of things that only show up on the bill when you hold it up to the light like a different portrait of the president on the bill in the lower right hand and a strip that is between the layers that has the denomination printed on it. There are also numerous other small things that add up to make counterfeiting quite difficult. They don’t do of of these on $1 bills though since its not worth counterfeiting anyway.
tldr; there is actually a lot of security features on US currency also I don’t know why I know all of this or why I’m bother to post it to shitpost.
You are very correct in everything you just said. 👍
Coming from a tech that has had to repair and rebuild cash bill validators, you missed a thing…
They also have specially placed printed yellow dots, in the patterns of star constellations, almost imperceptible to the human eye, but designed for the bill validators to quickly recognize.
The fake dollar is way too small. Our $1 bill is supposed to be the same size as a $20. And I’ve measured Canadian bills before, they’re just as long…
Yes this is a joke/prank post…
Your bills are the same size? Is that not an accessibility nightmare? In Australia the sizes change with higher-value notes being wider than lower-value ones, helping vision-impaired people identify the right note. (In addition to the vibrant very different colours and tactile bumps.)
Yes, it legitimately is an accessibility nightmare.
There is a blind man I used to follow on YT. He is American and is pretty self sufficient. But since there are literally zero distinguishing features on our paper currency for blind people, he manages to know which bills he has by hoping others are telling him the correct bill in good faith and then organizing the bills in a particular order in his wallet.
Interesting. Indeed, our legit bills here in the USA are all the same size. I’ve actually seen that they do have a device that banks can use to stamp in Braille dots on the bills for blind people, but I’ve never seen a Braille stamped bill out in the wild. 🤷