Counterfeit Currency Flashcards
What are the characteristics of counterfeit intaglio?
Plates for intaglio are chemically etched rather than hand engraved. It exhibits raised print and feathering, like genuine, though counterfeit intaglio is usually shallow.
What are the characteristics of counterfeit typographic?
Typographic plates for printing of counterfeit are chemically etched. Counterfeit typography exhibits a halo of ink around the edge of the print, similar to genuine, and may be indented into the paper.
What are the characteristics of screen printing?
They are made by squeezing ink through a stencil supported by a stretched mesh of silk, nylon, or steel. The layer of ink may be thick and opaque enough to obscure the paper fibers underneath. A gridlike “stair-step” pattern may be seen on the edges of the print and is the pattern of the screen mesh.
What are the characteristics of line offset?
The ink is flat on the surface of the paper. It is solid and has uniform ink coverage. The image is not composed of dots. The edges of the print are sharp.
What are the characteristics of single-color halftone offset?
The halftone process breaks images up into dots that vary in size but are organized in regular, repeating patterns. Darker areas are created by bigger dots; lighter areas by smaller dots.
What are the characteristics of full color halftone offset?
The same dot patterns will be seen with full color halftone offset as with single-color halftone offset, except the patterns will overlap and be of four colors; cyan, yellow, magenta, and black.
What are the characteristics of toner?
Toner is a plastic powder that is fused to the surface of the paper with heat or pressure. It is a sold material that appears to rest on the surface of the paper. It has a “gritty” appearance around the edges. It has a shinny, glossy surface.
What are the characteristics of inkjet?
Tiny droplets of ink sprayed onto the surface of the paper. It is seen as colored dots randomly spaced and without the order. The dots are irregularly shaped but roughly the same size.
What is the Circular Classification System?
Used to connect counterfeit notes back to the original counterfeiter.
Allows for several counterfeits linked together to be grouped into a family.
Used statistically for investigative and sentencing purposes.
What is the Circular Classification System based on?
Searchable identifiers and defect transfer
What are the 7 searchable identifiers?
1) Federal Reserve Bank Indicator
2) Series Year
3) Note Position Letter
4) Note Position Number
5) Face plate letter
6) Face plate number
7) Back plate number
What is a Traditional Circular?
Example C-23000, Counterfeit printed entirely or partly with the traditional print processes.
*Applies to notes with a combination of traditional and digital printing processes.
What is PRJT Classification?
Example P-9686, Low passing (less than $10,000) counterfeit printed entirely with digital print processes.
What is Digital Circular or D-Note?
Example D-23001, High passing ($10,000) counterfeit note printed entirely with digital print processes.
How does a note get a “same circular” classification?
If two notes have the same defects found on all three printing plates and have the same identifiers.
