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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hiddendragon, post: 888350, member: 25270&quot;]First off, let me acknowledge that I realize it is a bad idea to buy things you don&#039;t know anything about. But nevertheless, occasionally over the years I&#039;ve found myself bidding on eBay auctions of foreign currency just because I&#039;d start browsing and find something I liked, whether it was because it had a nice design or was an obscure country or whatever. But I don&#039;t know anything about foreign currency really. Anyway, sometimes I will get the note in the mail and I will really wonder if it&#039;s real or something someone made on their home computer. Whereas American and Western European currency is clearly made of cloth paper, I&#039;ll get some from non-Western countries that just feel like regular, thin paper. They are usually small and never folded or anything because they are being sold as uncirculated. But if they really are legitimate currency, I can&#039;t help but think anyone with a computer in these nations could be making these for themselves. So the question for the experts is, do these non-Western countries really make currency on such thin, unremarkable paper, or am I getting ripped off? Examples are former Soviet republics like Azerbaijan, or Vietnam. I have some Japanese Philippines occupation money that seems suspicious. I have a hard time believing someone living in World War II Philippines would have all these immaculate notes that would still be pristine 70 years later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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