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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1302024, member: 12789&quot;]Regrettably ABNCo printed some of the finest banknotes in the world, but usually not for the United States - but rather their northern, southern, eastern and across the Pacific neighbours.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Czechoslovakia 5000 kcs 1920</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/czechoslovakia/czech50001920.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In it&#039;s various incarnations with overprints for Slovakia and Bohemia it circulated until 1945.&nbsp; This note has wonderful background tinting that was accomplished with multiple printing passes - by comparison a very expensive printing technique by the standards of today.&nbsp; But for the time a means of counterfeit detection - this process was very difficult to align plates precisely.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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