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Some currency factoids: 1) North Korea has nearly perfect USD$100 printing plates, and finances imports with them. There have been several news articles writte
by redis_mlc 6y ago
Some currency factoids:
1) North Korea has nearly perfect USD$100 printing plates, and finances imports with them. There have been several news articles written about this.
2) In Indonesia, the USD is a parallel currency that individuals/business owners use as a hedge against instability. Typically they'll have a hardbound book with mint USD$100 bills between alternating pages.
By mint I mean no holes, no wear, no ink stamps, post 2000.
3) I met somebody who had saved $15,000.00 in Indonesian Rupiah towards UK accounting school. Sadly, the month before, the Rupiah was devalued by 90% and he was left with only $1,500. See #2.
Typically when you exchange USD$2,000.00 there, you get a brown lunch bag full of Rupiah note bundles. You almost need a duffel bag to do a large exchange or withdrawal.
4) The lowest amount, the 100 Rupiah note, worth less than 1 cent, has an orangutan on it. Coincidentally, the strongman Suharto was on the old 50,000 note, worth about $3, the highest amount at the time. Guess which one is called the monkey note? :)
- boomboomsubban 6y ago>North Korea has nearly perfect USD$100 printing plates, and finances imports with them. There have been several news articles written about this I believe there has only been one report of a "superdollar" found since 2008, and there has never been overly strong proof that North Korea were the ones producing them
- pas 6y agoIf it's perfect, how would anyone find them?
- Leherenn 6y agoSerial numbers I assume?
- pas 6y agoWhat do you mean? You would need to track every bill and simultaneously find two matching ones, and now you know one of them is a counterfeit but which one?
- boomboomsubban 6y agoThe bills weren't perfect, just nearly perfect. There are issues like one line in the art being printed too distinctly.
- Leherenn 6y agoYou don't really need to know which one is which (and if the counterfeit one is perfect, does it even matter?). But if you have 2 bills with the same SN, then you know someone is creating perfect counterfeited bills.