Talk:Counterfeit
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Should this article be merged with counterfeiting (another stub)? -- Notheruser 04:50 Apr 4, 2003 (UTC)
- Indeed it should. I didn't see that article. If you search for "counterfeit", the article "counterfeiting" does not come up as a title match - that is strange. --snoyes 04:55 Apr 4, 2003 (UTC)
How can you tell??
Did I get this correct??
Look at the back of the bill. You can tell whether it is a counterfeit by whether there are any hard-to-see curves that look like string. If none are present, this means it is a counterfeit. Also, has anyone gone to the Discuss this page at the $50 bill article??
Here is some text I took off the article page:
- (rough notes) two classes of counterfeiting - one to deceive as to the content (gold coins, pharmaceuticals) and one to deceive as to the source (paper currency, software)
--Yath 08:42, 23 May 2004 (UTC)
The quotation "the involuntary privatisation of banknote printing" is a lovely one. But could we have a citation for it? A Google search on those terms reveals nothing new.
- Hmm, tricky, it happened before every newspaper got online, so I'm not surprised Google couldn't find it (other than 48 mirrors of Wikipedia!). You'd have to go through Irish newspapers of the 1980s, I suppose, though I clearly remember the quotation being reported at the time. It was a pity, because the series B £20 was a particularly nice design in my opinion -- W.B. Yeats on the front and a nice Irish wolfhound on the back, in a nice shade of blue. It was also the highest denomination banknote one could legally take out of the country... -- Arwel 13:05, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Another fine theme is quotations from the counterfeit banknotes. It may be have been another urban legend, as I have not seen any such personally, but in 1980s there was a widespread story about Soviet roubles with changed text. At that time, roubles were heavily covered in dense script (using languages of all 15 "member states" of USSR), so it was not hard to miss that in the place where it should have been written "counterfeit is a crime legally punished by (bla-bla-bla)" the text said actually "ours are not worse than yours" (наши не хуже ваших). Another version (allegedly) said "read it through and pass it to your comrade" (прочитай и передай товарищу), a common note on the wartime leaflets. --Oop 13:21, Jan 29, 2005 (UTC)