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Message:: [QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 5247915, member: 12789"]The Operation Bernhard notes have varying opinions on the level of difficulty in their manufacture.  The impression most people have of the Bank of England(BoE) notes from that time period is that they were easy to fake based on the notes were very plain looking.  But actually the BoE white notes are quite surprisingly and fiendishly clever -giving the impression that they are easy to forge but in fact there are many tantalising features in the paper and in the printing that only the BoE knew all the details of.  Even the selection of the serial numbers printed on the note involved a process that the Germans had to crack to make it appear as though they were actually issued notes. The Germans had the Jewish forgers handle the forged notes to make them appear as though they had actually seen some use to give an air of authenticity.  This included folding, bending and scuffing.  They also poked pins in the notes to mimic the then common practice of pinning notes together.  And the forgers then sabotaged the notes (similar to the slave labourers building German jets left bolts and rivets out to cause a later disaster) by putting pinholes in "Britannia's" eyes - they knew no Brit in their right mind would ever do such a thing. As for the authentic notes, I have studied them thoroughly and appreciate a circa 1855 technology that served well for over 100 years until 1956.[/QUOTE]