What goes into printing cash notes we handle on a regular basis? And is there a possibility that the value of the $100 is worth less than what it’s labeled due to mass undetectable counterfeiting?
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>And is there a possibility that the value of the $100 is worth less than what it’s labeled due to mass undetectable counterfeiting?
Zero possibility.
I don’t know what you’re imagining, but $100 = $100? There’s never a scenario where $100 = $85… By definition.
The value of any currency relative to another currency (if that’s what you’re talking about) is determined by economic factors, and at the end of the day is in essence just the balance of what people are willing to “pay” in another currency, in order to get $1 of US currency, versus the price people want to “sell” their US currency for.
Having a lot of counterfeit money in circulation would tend to depress the value of US currency yes, but only because it would be easier to find someone willing to part with US currency, since with more physical bills floating around for people to exchange. But that’s just not a huge factor in modern economies since most “money” is electronic anyway. Not to mention that the US government can pretty easily offset anything but a truly *massive* influx of new bills, by simply collecting and destroying larger amounts of old bills, in addition to simply printing fewer new ones.
Well there’s the special paper only made for the government. It chemically reacts to a type of marker.
The metallic ink, color changing ink, raised printing, micro text, plastic insert, and hidden image you only see when held up to a light, are also insanely hard to reproduce.
Fakes are out there, even decent ones, but not nearly enough to have a significant effect the economy, $100 buys $100 worth of goods. With over 2 Trillion dollars worth of cash in circulation it’d take a massive amount of fraud to make a dent.
There’s a lot of anti-counterfeit elements put into bills… microprinting, ultraviolet and magnetic sensitive inks, embedded strips, and the paper itself has special threads in it.
As others have pointed out, it’s way too hard to do for most criminal organizations, but North Korea supposedly printed massive amounts of counterfeit $100 bills in the past that were good enough to be used for illicit transactions without being detected as fake for years
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