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<p>[QUOTE="NOS, post: 3528561, member: 2098"]I digress on this as the old notes had many perfectly good security features on them but sadly much of the common folk out there are devoid of any critical thought when it comes to money. For example, currency had iron mixed into the ink starting in the early 1980's. This helped machines and currency-processing equipment to validate notes. The ink and paper mix of cotton and linen used is essentially unique and unattainable by the general public, the micro-printing and embedded strips introduced in the early 1990's was a fine idea, as were the development and use of blue and red fibers into the paper.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the first time I've heard of a post-1995 $5 note causing suspicion. Sadly, we have the government to blame for this. The $5 note should never have been messed with beyond adding the security features that were introduced starting with Series 1993.</p><p><br /></p><p>All their redesign did was enable forgers to bleach 1999-2006 $5 notes into fake $100 bills with relative ease. The problem was so pronounced that it became a priority to change the $5 note into its present-day form which is why it has the giant purple "5" on the back, the major modification of the watermark from a portrait, the rearrangement of the embedded security strip, and its pronounced emphasis on the strip wherein it states it is for the $5 denomination.</p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of headaches, time, money and deceptive counterfeiting would have been saved and prevented if well enough was simply left alone of which, the $5 note is said to have nearly not been redesigned from the small-face portrait to begin with but treasury officials or whomever at the time pushed forward with the change, anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="NOS, post: 3528561, member: 2098"]I digress on this as the old notes had many perfectly good security features on them but sadly much of the common folk out there are devoid of any critical thought when it comes to money. For example, currency had iron mixed into the ink starting in the early 1980's. This helped machines and currency-processing equipment to validate notes. The ink and paper mix of cotton and linen used is essentially unique and unattainable by the general public, the micro-printing and embedded strips introduced in the early 1990's was a fine idea, as were the development and use of blue and red fibers into the paper. This is the first time I've heard of a post-1995 $5 note causing suspicion. Sadly, we have the government to blame for this. The $5 note should never have been messed with beyond adding the security features that were introduced starting with Series 1993. All their redesign did was enable forgers to bleach 1999-2006 $5 notes into fake $100 bills with relative ease. The problem was so pronounced that it became a priority to change the $5 note into its present-day form which is why it has the giant purple "5" on the back, the major modification of the watermark from a portrait, the rearrangement of the embedded security strip, and its pronounced emphasis on the strip wherein it states it is for the $5 denomination. A lot of headaches, time, money and deceptive counterfeiting would have been saved and prevented if well enough was simply left alone of which, the $5 note is said to have nearly not been redesigned from the small-face portrait to begin with but treasury officials or whomever at the time pushed forward with the change, anyway.[/QUOTE]
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