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氐賳丕毓 丕賱賳賯賵丿 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱爻乇賷 賱胤亘丕毓丞 兀賵乇丕賯 丕賱賳賯丿
This book is about the most precious piece of paper we know, about bank-notes. Modern life would be unthinkable without them. Yet, the general public is kept very much in the dark about how they are made or who makes them. It is rarely known, for example, that despite America's technical Prowess all dollar bills are printed exclusively on German high-security printing presses using secret Swiss special inks, or that the phony 100 dollar bills, the so-called supernotes may well be printed in a top-secret printing works located just north of the white House and run by the CIA - although the US government is blaming the rogue government of North Korea for counterfeiting these bills. This book is finally lifting the veil on an industry used to absolute secrecy. It recounts the stories of a British banknote printer who, fearing the loss of his customer, informed the Egyptian secret service that the securities printing machinery the Egyptians were about to buy was of Jewish origin; of a private printer who convinced the Polish central bank that it should destroy a complete series of new, perfect banknotes which had been printed by a competitor, or of an Argentinean high-security printer who came to print genuine fake bank-notes for Zaire and Bahrain as a result of two sting operations, which smell of the Belgian and French secret service.
Moneymakers, by offering a detailed view of the banknote industry and its modus operandi, removes the industry's carefully imposed shroud of secrecy. This book has been researched over a five-year period in Europe, the USA, and Latin America. The book is based exclusively on personal Interviews and confidential mate4rial normally not accessible to outsiders. There were attempts to stop this research project.
Klaus W. Bender has peered behind the scenes of the Secret and exclusive world of the moneymakers. - Financial Times Deutschland, 2004
The errors and pitfalls at the birth of the euro make Bender's research so unnerving. - Suddeutsche Zeitung, 2004
Bender does not mince his words when he describes abuses - and there are lots of them. - Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 2004
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First published July 16, 2004
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August 6, 2020
丕賱賰鬲丕亘 噩賷丿 賵賷丨鬲賵賶 賲毓賱賵賲丕鬲 賯賷賲丞 賵賮乇賷丿丞 賵賱賰賳賴 賲賲賱 亘爻亘亘 丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱賲賰乇乇丞 賵丕賱賲鬲丿丕禺賱丞 賵兀乇賶 兀賳賴 賱賵 賰丕賳 鬲賲 丕禺鬲氐丕乇 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳賴 賱賰丕賳 丨噩賲賴 兀賯賱 賵賯賷賲鬲賴 丕賱賲毓乇賮賷丞 兀毓賱賶
November 15, 2019
The book was originally German, and this English translation was also developed and printed in Germany. It has slightly bizarre typesetting, using guillemots in place of quotation marks (except in one place in the preface, where a mixture was used), inward-pointing opposite of the way the French use their guillemots. Also English hyphenation rules break words on syllables, but here the hyphenation was done at any letter, hurting readability a little bit. There were also basic proofreading mistakes throughout which caused the book to seem a bit silly at times. The publisher should have worked with a USA firm for the English release, or at least had more native English speakers assist in the production. But, I'm sure this can all be explained in trying to hold down costs. Okay fine, the damage is by no means fatal to the product. The type style and layout, however, were exceptional. It was a joy to handle this hardcover edition.
On the book's subject, technical details were a little sparse, but not totally absent. It reads more like a business & industry book, except the players are niche and generally secretive, but no less rapacious at times. *wink* Lots of fun anecdotes throughout. The chapter near the end discusses the US $100 supernotes, and provides a *very* compelling case that the CIA was and is their source, not North Korea, as promoted in American media. This part of the book was actually my favorite! This section presented a key detail that absolutely 100% of their visual features were perfectly copied, making manual, human-based counterfeit detection dang near impossible. However, automated banknote validation equipment for the US market could and did, at the same time, instantly reject 100% of the supernotes. So...While USA users were are are scared by media that North Korea could be attacking and contaminating the money supply, USA domestic users of the cash had basically -zero- to worry about. Just as soon as any (unwitting or not) supernote user made a deposit to their regular bank, they'd be getting a call and perhaps a brief interview from a secret service agent or other investigator. Since the vast majority of American consumers, and basically all American business, re-deposit received cash quickly, any supernote injection would be flagged and pulled about as fast as it would land ashore.
For the CIA, paying for covert ops (almost certainly of dubious moral/ethical/legal repute) this way seems rather a ingenious move. I'm sure there must have been other use-cases for supernotes thusly designed, too. You could get them into the hands of someone suspected of being part of some terrorist network, and then watch reports come in from banks about counterfeits being rejected to see where the network stretches, who their suppliers or partnering organizations are, etc.
The book didn't say, but I'm reasonably confident that inter-government agreements could have shared supernote detection measures such that coordinating governments could exercise some control over where supernotes pop back out of the system of hand-to-hand cash. Then the only way to stay under cover would be for introduced supernotes to /never/ return to the international banking system, but remain as hand-to-hand cash. The more modern/technically enriched/1st-world you go, the less practical it seems that you'd keep your liquid assets as physical cash and not utilize banking services.
The story reminded me of the time during Iraq War 2/Afganistan-perma-war that US news outlets were reporting stories about the Defense Department being basically un-auditable, and that the Pentagon had even lost track of some $2 bln. in palletized cash for transport that was "supposed" to be for ATMs at US bases overseas. What? Maybe the lost cash consisted of CIA supernotes, and by "lost" it was actually a cover story to help inspire foreign users of US cash that the new cash finding its way into their midst was genuine, the US was concerned over losing it, and they'd be silly not to regard it as good money for their own uses.
Why not?
The truth is probably stranger than fiction on this.
On the book's subject, technical details were a little sparse, but not totally absent. It reads more like a business & industry book, except the players are niche and generally secretive, but no less rapacious at times. *wink* Lots of fun anecdotes throughout. The chapter near the end discusses the US $100 supernotes, and provides a *very* compelling case that the CIA was and is their source, not North Korea, as promoted in American media. This part of the book was actually my favorite! This section presented a key detail that absolutely 100% of their visual features were perfectly copied, making manual, human-based counterfeit detection dang near impossible. However, automated banknote validation equipment for the US market could and did, at the same time, instantly reject 100% of the supernotes. So...While USA users were are are scared by media that North Korea could be attacking and contaminating the money supply, USA domestic users of the cash had basically -zero- to worry about. Just as soon as any (unwitting or not) supernote user made a deposit to their regular bank, they'd be getting a call and perhaps a brief interview from a secret service agent or other investigator. Since the vast majority of American consumers, and basically all American business, re-deposit received cash quickly, any supernote injection would be flagged and pulled about as fast as it would land ashore.
For the CIA, paying for covert ops (almost certainly of dubious moral/ethical/legal repute) this way seems rather a ingenious move. I'm sure there must have been other use-cases for supernotes thusly designed, too. You could get them into the hands of someone suspected of being part of some terrorist network, and then watch reports come in from banks about counterfeits being rejected to see where the network stretches, who their suppliers or partnering organizations are, etc.
The book didn't say, but I'm reasonably confident that inter-government agreements could have shared supernote detection measures such that coordinating governments could exercise some control over where supernotes pop back out of the system of hand-to-hand cash. Then the only way to stay under cover would be for introduced supernotes to /never/ return to the international banking system, but remain as hand-to-hand cash. The more modern/technically enriched/1st-world you go, the less practical it seems that you'd keep your liquid assets as physical cash and not utilize banking services.
The story reminded me of the time during Iraq War 2/Afganistan-perma-war that US news outlets were reporting stories about the Defense Department being basically un-auditable, and that the Pentagon had even lost track of some $2 bln. in palletized cash for transport that was "supposed" to be for ATMs at US bases overseas. What? Maybe the lost cash consisted of CIA supernotes, and by "lost" it was actually a cover story to help inspire foreign users of US cash that the new cash finding its way into their midst was genuine, the US was concerned over losing it, and they'd be silly not to regard it as good money for their own uses.
Why not?
The truth is probably stranger than fiction on this.
February 9, 2017
丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賱賷爻 爻賷卅丕 . 亘賱 賲賲鬲毓 賵賷丨賵賷 賲毓賱賵賲丕鬲 噩丿賷丿丞 賵賲噩賴賵賱丞 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賳丕 . 乇睾賲 丨噩賲賴 丕賱賰亘賷乇 丕賱丕 丕賳 賯乇丕亍鬲賴 賱賷爻鬲 賲賲賱丞 亘卮賰賱 賷鬲毓亘 . .
乇亘賲丕 賴賳丕賰 毓賷亘丕賳 賮賷賴 :
丕賵賱丕: 丕賳賴 賰丕賳 賷賲賰賳 丕禺鬲氐丕乇賴 丕賱賶 丕賱孬賱孬賷賳 . 賮孬賱孬 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 鬲丨爻賴 兀丨賷丕賳丕 賲賰乇乇.
孬丕賳賷丕 : 丕賳 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賷毓鬲亘乇 賯丿賷賲丕 丨賷孬 鬲賲 鬲兀賱賷賮賴 丌賵丕禺乇 佗贍贍伽 丕賵 佗贍贍佶 . 賵亘丕賱鬲丕賱賷 賴賳丕賰 賲爻鬲噩丿丕鬲 賴丕卅賱丞 賮賷 賲噩丕賱 氐賳丕毓丞 丕賱賳賯賵丿 丕賱賵乇賯賷丞 賲賳匕 匕賱賰 丕賱賵賯鬲 丨鬲賶 賵賯鬲賳丕 丕賱乇丕賴賳
- 毓亘丿丕賱賱賴
乇亘賲丕 賴賳丕賰 毓賷亘丕賳 賮賷賴 :
丕賵賱丕: 丕賳賴 賰丕賳 賷賲賰賳 丕禺鬲氐丕乇賴 丕賱賶 丕賱孬賱孬賷賳 . 賮孬賱孬 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 鬲丨爻賴 兀丨賷丕賳丕 賲賰乇乇.
孬丕賳賷丕 : 丕賳 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賷毓鬲亘乇 賯丿賷賲丕 丨賷孬 鬲賲 鬲兀賱賷賮賴 丌賵丕禺乇 佗贍贍伽 丕賵 佗贍贍佶 . 賵亘丕賱鬲丕賱賷 賴賳丕賰 賲爻鬲噩丿丕鬲 賴丕卅賱丞 賮賷 賲噩丕賱 氐賳丕毓丞 丕賱賳賯賵丿 丕賱賵乇賯賷丞 賲賳匕 匕賱賰 丕賱賵賯鬲 丨鬲賶 賵賯鬲賳丕 丕賱乇丕賴賳
- 毓亘丿丕賱賱賴
January 13, 2021
=氐購賳賻賾丕毓 丕賱賳賯賵丿: 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱爻賽賾乇賽賾賷 賱胤亘丕毓丞 兀賵乇丕賯 丕賱賳賯丿
=賰賱丕賵爻 亘賷賳丿乇
=鬲乇噩賲丞 禺丕賱丿 睾乇賷亘 毓賱賷
賷丿賵乇 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丨賵賱 兀孬賲賳 芦賯胤毓丞 賵乇賯禄 賳毓乇賮賴丕貨 兀賱丕 賵賴賷 兀賵乇丕賯 丕賱賳賯賿丿. 丕禺鬲購乇毓鬲賽 丕賱賳賯賵丿 丕賱賵乇賯賷丞 毓賱賶 兀賷丿賷 丕賱氐賷賳賷賷賳貙 賵亘毓丿 匕賱賰 亘兀賱賮 毓丕賲賺貙 賰丕賳 丕賱賲爻鬲毓賲賽乇賵賳 丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷賵賳 兀賵賱 賲賻賳 丕爻鬲禺丿賲賴丕 丕爻鬲禺丿丕賲賸丕 賲購賲賳賿賴噩賸丕 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱睾乇亘賷貙 丨鬲賶 廿賳賴賲 賲賵賻賾賱賵丕 孬賵乇鬲賻賴賲 亘廿氐丿丕乇 兀毓丿丕丿 賴丕卅賱丞 賲賳 兀賵乇丕賯 丕賱丿賵賱丕乇. 賲賳 丕賱氐毓亘 鬲氐賵購賾乇 丕賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱丨丿賷孬丞 丿賵賳賻 賳購賯購賵丿 賵乇賯賷丞貨 賵賲毓 匕賱賰 賷購禺賮賻賶 毓賳 毓丕賲丞 丕賱賳丕爻 賰賷賮 鬲購氐賳毓 兀賵乇丕賯 丕賱賳賯賿丿 賵賲賳 賷氐賳毓賴丕貙 賵鬲購毓賱賻賾賱 賴匕賴 丕賱爻賽賾乇賷丞 丿丕卅賲賸丕 亘兀賳賴丕 囟賲丕賳丞 禺丕氐丞 芦賲卮乇賵毓丞禄 賱賲賳鬲賻噩 卮丿賷丿 丕賱禺氐賵氐賷丞. 睾賷乇 兀賳 賴匕賴 丕賱爻賽賾乇賽賾賷丞 鬲乇鬲亘胤 兀賷囟賸丕 亘賴賷賰賱 丕賱爻賵賯貙 賵賴賵 賴賷賰賱 睾賷乇 毓丕丿賷賺賾 賵賲購爻賷賻賾爻賹 廿賱賶 丨丿 亘毓賷丿貙 毓賱賶 賳丨賵賺 賷購匕賰賽賾乇賳丕 毓賱賶 丕賱賮賵乇 亘氐賳丕毓丞 丕賱爻賱丕丨. 賵賱賰賳 賴匕丕 丕賱賴賵爻 亘丕賱爻賽賾乇賷丞 賷亘丿賵 賮賷 睾賷乇 賲賵囟毓賴 賮賷 毓氐乇 丕賱廿賳鬲乇賳鬲貙 賵賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賴賵 丕賱兀賵賱 賲賳 賳賵毓賴 丕賱匕賷 賷購賱賯賽賷 賳馗乇丞 賲鬲毓賲賽賾賯丞 毓賱賶 毓丕賱賲 氐賳丕毓丞 兀賵乇丕賯 丕賱賳賯丿.
=賰賱丕賵爻 亘賷賳丿乇
=鬲乇噩賲丞 禺丕賱丿 睾乇賷亘 毓賱賷
賷丿賵乇 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丨賵賱 兀孬賲賳 芦賯胤毓丞 賵乇賯禄 賳毓乇賮賴丕貨 兀賱丕 賵賴賷 兀賵乇丕賯 丕賱賳賯賿丿. 丕禺鬲購乇毓鬲賽 丕賱賳賯賵丿 丕賱賵乇賯賷丞 毓賱賶 兀賷丿賷 丕賱氐賷賳賷賷賳貙 賵亘毓丿 匕賱賰 亘兀賱賮 毓丕賲賺貙 賰丕賳 丕賱賲爻鬲毓賲賽乇賵賳 丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷賵賳 兀賵賱 賲賻賳 丕爻鬲禺丿賲賴丕 丕爻鬲禺丿丕賲賸丕 賲購賲賳賿賴噩賸丕 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱睾乇亘賷貙 丨鬲賶 廿賳賴賲 賲賵賻賾賱賵丕 孬賵乇鬲賻賴賲 亘廿氐丿丕乇 兀毓丿丕丿 賴丕卅賱丞 賲賳 兀賵乇丕賯 丕賱丿賵賱丕乇. 賲賳 丕賱氐毓亘 鬲氐賵購賾乇 丕賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱丨丿賷孬丞 丿賵賳賻 賳購賯購賵丿 賵乇賯賷丞貨 賵賲毓 匕賱賰 賷購禺賮賻賶 毓賳 毓丕賲丞 丕賱賳丕爻 賰賷賮 鬲購氐賳毓 兀賵乇丕賯 丕賱賳賯賿丿 賵賲賳 賷氐賳毓賴丕貙 賵鬲購毓賱賻賾賱 賴匕賴 丕賱爻賽賾乇賷丞 丿丕卅賲賸丕 亘兀賳賴丕 囟賲丕賳丞 禺丕氐丞 芦賲卮乇賵毓丞禄 賱賲賳鬲賻噩 卮丿賷丿 丕賱禺氐賵氐賷丞. 睾賷乇 兀賳 賴匕賴 丕賱爻賽賾乇賽賾賷丞 鬲乇鬲亘胤 兀賷囟賸丕 亘賴賷賰賱 丕賱爻賵賯貙 賵賴賵 賴賷賰賱 睾賷乇 毓丕丿賷賺賾 賵賲購爻賷賻賾爻賹 廿賱賶 丨丿 亘毓賷丿貙 毓賱賶 賳丨賵賺 賷購匕賰賽賾乇賳丕 毓賱賶 丕賱賮賵乇 亘氐賳丕毓丞 丕賱爻賱丕丨. 賵賱賰賳 賴匕丕 丕賱賴賵爻 亘丕賱爻賽賾乇賷丞 賷亘丿賵 賮賷 睾賷乇 賲賵囟毓賴 賮賷 毓氐乇 丕賱廿賳鬲乇賳鬲貙 賵賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賴賵 丕賱兀賵賱 賲賳 賳賵毓賴 丕賱匕賷 賷購賱賯賽賷 賳馗乇丞 賲鬲毓賲賽賾賯丞 毓賱賶 毓丕賱賲 氐賳丕毓丞 兀賵乇丕賯 丕賱賳賯丿.
January 7, 2018
A journey into the world of printing money...for the most part a tedious read. Like every other type of printing it is a race to the bottom. So basically the story of printing in general with a smattering of interesting stories about counterfeiting and security.
This has been written by a non-native English speaker and it comes out in the translation. Structured with frequently odd sentence structures makes this a tough read.
If you are interested in printing or money then it might be worth a read.
This has been written by a non-native English speaker and it comes out in the translation. Structured with frequently odd sentence structures makes this a tough read.
If you are interested in printing or money then it might be worth a read.
July 12, 2024
丕賱賰鬲丕亘 噩賷丿 廿賱賶 丨丿 賰亘賷乇 賵亘賴 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賲毓賱賵賲丕鬲 毓賳 鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱賳賯賵丿 賵 氐賳丕毓鬲賴丕 賵鬲丕乇賷禺 氐賳丕毓丞 丕賱丌鬲 胤亘毓 丕賱賳賯賵丿 賵丕賱卮乇賰丕鬲 丕賱毓丕賱賲賷丞 丕賱丨賰賵賲賷丞 賵丕賱禺丕氐丞 丕賱鬲賷 賱賴丕 丿禺賱 亘鬲賱賰 丕賱氐賳丕毓丞 丕賱賲丐賲賳丞 賵丕賱爻乇賷丞 賵鬲丕乇賷禺 毓賲賱賷丕鬲 鬲夭賵賷乇 丕賱毓賲賱丕鬲 丕賱賵乇賯賷丞 賮賷 卮鬲賶 亘賯丕毓 丕賱毓丕賱賲. 賵兀賷囟丕 賲丕 賷鬲毓賱賯 亘丕賱氐毓賵亘丕鬲 賵丕賱鬲丨丿賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 賵丕噩賴鬲 丿賵賱 丕賱廿鬲丨丕丿 丕賱兀賵乇賵亘賷 兀孬賳丕亍 胤亘毓賴丕 賵丕禺乇丕噩賴丕 賱毓賲賱丞 丕賱賷賵乇賵.
October 21, 2020
賰鬲丕亘 賮馗賷毓 賮亘 賲毓賱賵賲丕鬲 乇丕卅毓賴 毓賳 鬲夭賷賮 丕賱賳賯賵丿
賵丕賳 毓賲賱賷丕鬲 丕賱丕丨鬲賷丕賱 賲賲賰賳 丕賳 鬲丐丿賷 丕賱賷 丨乇賵亘
賷賳賮毓 賷氐賷乇 賮賷賱賲
丕賵 賮賷賱賲 毓賳 丨賷丕丞 賳毓賷賲 禺賳丕賮乇 賵毓賲賱賷丕鬲 丕賱丕丨鬲賷丕賱 鬲亘毓鬲賴
賵丕賳 毓賲賱賷丕鬲 丕賱丕丨鬲賷丕賱 賲賲賰賳 丕賳 鬲丐丿賷 丕賱賷 丨乇賵亘
賷賳賮毓 賷氐賷乇 賮賷賱賲
丕賵 賮賷賱賲 毓賳 丨賷丕丞 賳毓賷賲 禺賳丕賮乇 賵毓賲賱賷丕鬲 丕賱丕丨鬲賷丕賱 鬲亘毓鬲賴
August 14, 2016
賲卮 賲賲鬲毓 賯丿 賲丕 賴賵 睾賳賷 亘鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱賲毓賱賵賲丕鬲.. 賲賲賱 亘爻 賲賮賷丿
January 10, 2021
賱賲毓乇賮丞 丕爻乇丕乇 氐賳丕毓丞 丕賱毓賲賱丞 賵胤乇賷賯丞 丕賱鬲賱丕毓亘 亘丕賱兀爻毓丕乇 賵丕賱廿亘鬲夭丕夭 丕賱爻賷丕爻賷
July 20, 2016
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