• 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Money is just small sheets of intricately designed paper or plastic. Imagine how easy it was to make counterfeits back in the days before all the technology came in

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      1 year ago

      Yep. After the civil war, a full third of US money was counterfeit which is why the secret service was created.