Re: Truly Awful Design?

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:02:46 +0100, Paul Burridge wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:07:38 +0100, "Frank Bemelman"
> <f.bemelmanq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Different sizes helps blind people to distuingish the different notes.
>>The dutch bank notes also had a sort of braille marks for that purpose.
>>The 100 bill had one dot.
>>
>>On this page:
>>http://home.wxs.nl/~j.piers/70ernl.html
>>...you can see the 10 note has three braille dots, and the 25 bill has
>>two dots.
>>
>>These bills had a reputation that they were the most toughest bills
>>on earth to counterfeit. The dutch printhouse, Johan Enschede printed
>>these bills and also prints a lot of money for many other countries
>>worldwide.
>
> As did American Banknote (US-owned) and De La Rue (British). I've no
> idea who's the market leader currently, however.
>
>>The newer euro bills are of much older 'state of the art' technology.
>>And we also see more counterfeit euro bills :(
>
> I'm surprised to hear that. So who do you reckon has the most secure
> currency at present?

Probably either South Africa or China - they still have a gold standard,
don't they?

Thanks,
Rich


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