Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Business Banking

[Jim Conforti (lndshrk]

At 11:30 AM 12/2/2006 -0800, Doug and Terri Anderson wrote:

> In our business we take in quite a bit of big bills - 50s and 100s.  So we
> have been schooled in the ways of counterfeiters.  First line of defense is
> to mark the bill with a special ink thing that turn yellow on a real bill
> but on anything else, leaves a black line.  Second line is ocular analysis.
> We look it over and compare it to what we have been taught and an almost
> daily hit list.

  Save on the "special ink" and just buy a bottle of tincture of iodine.

  (You remember, the stuff that used to burn like s**t on a wound!)

  Iodine reacts with (most) all counterfeit bill papers to turn blue/black
  and the iodine merely stains the cotton/linen based real stuff golden 
yellow.

  (It's the basis of the "special ink")

  Other tests include:

  1) Ultraviolet light - real money "paper" doesn't flouresce.  Fake does
     because of the whiteners and clays added to the wood pulp.

  2) The black ink on all real US currency is magnetic and can be "read"
     by a special device - this is how the money machines can detect WHICH
     bill value you have inserted ;)

  Jim