How North Korea Made the Perfect Counterfeit $100 Bill
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This video details the history of US currency counterfeiting, why pre-Civil War bank notes were so easy to fake, and how North Korea developed highly accurate "superdollars" in the 1980s and 1990s.
From the video
Answers: How were North Korean superdollars made and how do they compare to real US currency?
- history of US currency
- pre-Civil War banknote counterfeiting
- paper currency manufacturing security features
- North Korean superdollars
- Operation Bernhard
Ingredients
- pork tenderloin
- carrots
- rice
- sesame seeds
What it concludes
- Before 1861, over 1500 private banks issued their own unique bills, making counterfeiting extremely easy.
- US paper money is composed of 75 percent cotton, 25 percent linen, and security fibers, rather than paper.
- North Korea's Room 39 produced counterfeit $100 bills known as superdollars with almost imperceptible flaws.
- Foreign counterfeiting operations have historically been considered acts of war.
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