i'm sitting here in my semi (due to no loads) and i'm watching law and order trail by jury and they anyways in the case they had a bundle of $5,000 bucks, in $100's. They take the first one off, and the second one has the same serial number. Then i thought of this board.
tv shows have no imaginatuions lol they could have had all solid serial numbers, or all radars ... heck maybe even through in some silver certs and such or a mixture of everything. but no... they photocopy a few hundred phoney notes all withthe same serial. i wonder if they followed the law in how they can create copies?????
not at all ... there are very specific laws in place on how to do it. reproductions have to be 1/3 smaller or twice bigger or so. They have to be off color ect. I dont have the exact link to the legal steps 1 has to do to make a paper copy of a US note, but its cannot be full color and exact size.
i wonder how they could use them? What about movies, ones that take place in the thirty's. how/where do they get the silver cer?
movioes fromt he 30's might well have ben before laws were passed controlling how to re-produce banknotes. I do not know exaclty when the laws were passed. I just remember a member here on the forum posting a link to the laws some time ago. I did a quick search on google to try and find it, but must be using the wrong search parameters lol
ahhhh ... if you were to actually get a piece of that money they show - i bet you they are not exact copies, but a sort of close copy that passes the law but makes it believable.
Here ya go guy's... RickieB Reproduction of Currency Authority: The Counterfeit Detection Act of 1992, Public Law 102-550 Color Reproductions Section 411 of Title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations permits the printing, publishing or importation, or the making or importation of the necessary plates or items for such printing or publication, of color illustrations of U.S. currency provided that: 1. The illustration must be of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of any matter so illustrated; 2. The illustration must be one sided; and 3. All negatives, plates, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices, and any other thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof shall be destroyed and or deleted or erased after their final use in accordance with this section. Black and White Reproductions Title 18, United States Code, Section 504 permits black and white reproductions of currency and other obligations, provided such reproductions meet the size requirement.
