I guess you can try -- but those bills are cryin' "Stop!" at the machine. Link goes to the EURion Constellation, and that's just the one that got found out; there are other schemes, count on it.
The battle between coiners and counterfeiters is at least as old as money and if you count buying a pig in a poke only to let the cat outta the bag, it's probably older. In the case of mediums-of-exchange, ain't nobody spozed to water it down but Teh Gummint. They get bent all outta shape when there's competition.
G. Godon Liddy commented in his book "Will" about some of da "Wise guys" he met in the joint; the Govt. went after organised crime as hard as they do 'cuz they hate the competition...
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ReplyDeleteHmm. I'm thinking that all those people who say to me "I'll just make a photocopy of this for my records" might start being disappointed if I applied an overlay o such circles to personally identifying documents...
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