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Tools for your business- How to Spot Bleached bills

Why a New $5 bill? Are there many $5 counterfeit bills? No, the reason being is that enhancing security and design features makes it difficult for criminals who want to change the face value of the bills. Criminals are taking advantage of chemicals that remove the ink of money to change the face value of bills. The majority of bleached bills are the smallest denominations $1 bills, $5 bills and, in some cases, the $10 bill to be converted into $20, $50 or $100 bills. In an effort to keep ahead of counterfeiters, the Department of the Treasury will issue a more secure-and-streamline designed $5 bill.

When a $5 dollar bill is bleached to convert it into a $50 bill, we can perceive some/all of the following characteristics:

    - The watermark differs with the portrait located in the middle. The Image of Ulysses Grant in the middle and Abraham Lincoln in the watermark position.

    - The security thread, when looked through the light reads $5 USA in a $50 bill and/or does not have a well-defined shape.

    - The magnetic ink in most of the cases is not present.

    - The micro-printing will not be well defined. Through a magnifier, the shape of the micro-printed letters will not be clear.

    - The color shifting ink will not change from copper to green.

    - The infrared mark will not be in the position that it should in the $50 bill.

When bleaching the bills, counterfeiters will use the washed-out paper to print the desired value on top of it, meaning that you will feel “real paper”. However, there are many other security features that could be checked on the note to spot the counterfeit. For instance, some other security features are the security thread, color shifting ink, watermark, magnetic ink, micro-printing, and infrared.

Introspection to the security features to be checked:


-Infrared: On the back of the bill infrared marks in the form of white stripes varying over the different denominations. This feature appears in new bills only.

The bill contains a number of security features with the purpose to verify its genuineness. Businesses and the public should take advantage of all the security features embedded in the bill made to protect the hard earned money. By accepting a counterfeit you are giving away your money, loosing it.

Check AccuBANKER solutions to detect ultraviolet, magnetic, micro-printing, watermark, and infrared security features.



   

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