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That was my first thought as I clear international freight through customs and see shipments of it every now and then. Looking at the image though that's defini
by ryanmercer 7y ago
That was my first thought as I clear international freight through customs and see shipments of it every now and then. Looking at the image though that's definitely supposed to be counterfeit currency. The printing looks pretty decent based on that one photo but the paper immediately stands out to me.
I should add that I'm quite familiar with counterfeit coinage, and 'in another life' saw quite a few counterfeit bills of larger denominations when I was involved with an 'ultra lounge' as bars and clubs are common places to try and pass counterfeit bills. There are guides on the clearnet and DNMs that even suggest you use bars/clubs to convert it to real fiat due to the fact bartenders are often quite busy and are in poor lighting. Never any dollar bills though.
Here are a bunch of fake specimens of coins and bullion /r/silverbug members have seen over the years that I've been curating https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2014/8/22/fake-silver.html https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2014/8/22/fake-silv...
Back to that money though because I'm curious and am gonna do the maths so might as well share it, US currency bills are are 2.61 inches wide and 6.14 inches long; they are 0.0043 inches thick and weigh 1 gram. You have 20,000 per box if it's an even 900k. An inch is 232.55 bills, let's call it 232 bills with the paper wrapping per inch.
Each of those boxes should be 0.8~ cubic feet or so if they were optimally packed. If that's a 40"x48" pallet those boxes are probably more like 0.96~ cubic feet.