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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 964, member: 57463&quot;]<b>THE MONEY MAKERS (INTERNATIONAL)</b></p><p><br /></p><p>BOOK REVIEW</p><p>The Money Makers international by Willibald Kranister (Black Bear Publishing, 1989).</p><p><br /></p><p>This book is not new, but was new to me when I bought a damaged copy from store stock with an employee discount.&nbsp; (Today, it is listed on Amazon three copies, three sellers, for $35, $45, and $50. Whatever you pay for the book, your money will be well invested.)&nbsp; Any collector of paper money needs this book.&nbsp; Catalogs do not show how notes are designed and printed.&nbsp; Catalogs do not provide insightful and incisive commentary on the processes and histories.&nbsp; The lavishly illustrated 326 page hardcover book is printed on heavy paper. </p><p><br /></p><p>Kranister was the Executive Director of the Austrian National Bank and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Securities Printing Works.&nbsp; He knows paper money.&nbsp; Kranister calls himself only the &quot;editor&quot; of this book.&nbsp; He acknowledges the &quot;friends&quot; who helped him write it.&nbsp; Among them were the General Manager of the Reserve Bank of Australia, a retired director of the Deutsche Bundesbank, the chief cashier of the Banco de Espan~a, and two US Secret Service agents, and Gene Hessler.</p><p><br /></p><p>The chapters begin with &quot;Birth of a Banknote&quot; which shows the rough sketches, computerized graphics, plate making, printing, and finishing. Three chapters cover innovations, counterfeiters, and frustating counterfeiters.&nbsp; The bulk of the book is a close look at the national currencies of Australia, Austria, China, England, Germany, Spain, Sweden, and the United States.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kranister writes in clear detail about every aspect of the arts and sciences that deliver the forms and uses of paper money. Guilloches, intaglios, lithography, copper plates, multicolor backgrounds, portrait watermarks, and all the rest are here, carefully explained in their technical and historical contexts, with the names of people who brought them to the national monies.&nbsp; (When was the first security thread used on a German note?)</p><p><br /></p><p>(C) Copyright 2002 by Michael E. Marotta[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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