grindy

Those euros from the early sixties were pretty shoddy.

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Neapolitan

They didn't lack security features, they just had less of them. The old bills still uses blue and red threads scattered throughout the cotton/linen blend for paper, and utilizes Intaglio printing to give it its unique look. Nowadays there are more security features on currency, still with all those features a person only needs a few seconds to pass off a counterfeit.

If you are worry about being fooled into receiving a counterfeit note, the best thing to do is take your time receiving money. Know what a real and a counterfeit note looks like. If it is smooth with a magazine or computer jet printer look to it, it's counterfeit. Counterfeit detector markers don't always work. A counterfeiter can strip a one dollar bill of its ink, then print over it to make it look like a hundred dollar bill. Since the bill was at one time real currency it will pass the counterfeit marker test.

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