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Counterfeit Twenty dollar bills circulating in Miami, FL

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  • #21
I was showing a freind who has a blacklight some of the security stuff on bills and cig packs. I had a bunch of ones and 1 of them glowed bright white. Is this just a older bill? I should of saved it but spent it. I don't think anyone would waste time on a $1 bill???
 
  • #22
If a bill gets washed with your laundry the brighteners used in most laundry detergents will cause it to glow under ultraviolet light.
 
  • #23
American money is not made of paper. It's made on a cotton fabric that is similar to denim.

Its all just cellulose fiber. If they can make "paper" from the fiber in elephant dung and still call it paper, then I don't see why the source would make any difference as to whether or not the resulting material is called "paper"
 
  • #24
yeah Finch and all graphite and diamonds are is pure carbon.....but there is a hell of a difference between the two even though they are made of the same crap.....cotton cloth and paper are very different even if both are just plant cellulose..............
 
  • #25
Read up on how counterfeit detecting pens work, Finch. They may both be paper, but wood cellulose acts a lot differently than cotton in certain respects. I, too, would agree that you can call both 'paper' - money isn't a fabric because it has no weave. But they're very different kinds of paper.
~Joe
 
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