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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 871591, member: 19065&quot;]Some countries DO remove old currency in your &#039;dead serious&#039; way, however your example with MPC notes isn&#039;t really that great of a comparison as the black market in a war zone or nation turned upside down by political strife, injustice, turmoil, ruin and financial collapse and yet fragile with inflation, criminal activity and instability isn&#039;t anything like the anti-counterfeiting measures and issues facing the Treasury/Fed in their never ceasing mission to update, replace and phase out older currency. The US hasn&#039;t needed to demonetize old currency like say European countries when switching to the Euro providing a time and manner in which to cash in the old for the new with a cut off date. The fact of the matter is, is that there isn&#039;t that much of the old pre-1996 notes out there, it&#039;s being culled each and every day by banks, the Fed and collectors. The &#039;few&#039; notes a counterfeiter would be attempting to pass would be that much more scrutinized and to continue trying to produce the older issues of currency wouldn&#039;t be worth it, not worth the time to create it, risk passing it and even then, to only attempt to pass a few notes. I don&#039;t see the value in the risk to the counterfeiter to work on older issues. I think you are really driving the hypothetical point to a hysterical dimension of unreality.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for your second paragraph, you should be aware that <i>all </i>prior Series have security measures in place.&nbsp; A new Series being issued doesn&#039;t mean the prior one is any easier to fake.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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