Aye, I hear it's a bit of a Monopoly industry.![]()
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Aye, I hear it's a bit of a Monopoly industry.![]()
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Where did you hear/get that from ? I have never ever heard of that - And I'd be more inclined to say the opposite. Fakes usually smudge a lot more easily.
This is one of the best ways.
You dont have to wet it either as the ink never dries. This works on all UK notes. This is the method I used to use and easiest to do without having 007 gadgetry.
Where did you hear/get that from ? I have never ever heard of that - And I'd be more inclined to say the opposite. Fakes usually smudge a lot more easily.
Scan it with a modern scanner. A fake will copy perfectly, a genuine note will be picked up as currency and you will get a warning box on screen.
There are hidden markers in real notes which are very hard for counterfeiters to mimic AFIK.
It's just five dots. Not exactly hard but not many people know what they do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
However, experiments by Steven J. Murdoch and others showed that this banknote detection code does not rely on the EURion pattern.[6] It instead detects a digital watermark embedded in the images, developed by Digimarc
Try it in a quiz machine? I know they're pretty good now at rejecting bum pound coins.