friends and I decided to go and check it out. We went to the museum in the reserve. The
first thing that caught my eye was the game to see if the money was real or not. One of
the money on display had a completely different color. It was difficult to tell whether or
not it was real or not. At first I got a lot wrong but then I started to get the hang of it. They had a poster there to detect if money real of not. Since replicating it used to be easy, they made it a little harder to recognize now. The portrait was enlarged making easy to see, but there was also little detail added so that it was harder to replicate. If you haven't noticed on a dollar bill or any other bill there is a blank spot off to the side this is where they have a watermark. A watermark can be created by
varying the paper density in small areas during the paper making process. This is done so
that when they hold the bill up to the light you can see the face from both sides of the bill.
They have also started a security thread. A security threat is a polymer thread indicating
that the notes denomination is embedded vertically on the paper in different locations.
Money also has a fine line breeding patterns to find mines a really hard replicate because
they are small and they are in various colors in specific places. Another feature of money
is micro-printing. Micro-printing appears in a different location in each denomination
because micro printed words are so small they are even harder to reproduce. To the
naked eye the micro printing may seem like thin lines but in reality when you use a low
power of magnifier you can make out words. Another features the color-shifting ink,
personally I thought this was the coolest feature. This color-shifting Ink made the green
numbers in the lower right corner on the front of the bill to appear black when they are
viewed the different angle there is no color shifting Ink in the five dollar bill. After reading
this and learning the differences, I replayed the game and was able to get most of them
just by looking at them. Some had a distinct color differences.
Another thing that was interesting was the money timeline. On this board there was a time
line with pictures of the different types of money the U.S. Has used since 1690. In 1690
there were Colonial Notes. The Massachusetts Bay colony should the first paper money
to cover the cost of military expeditions soon dear the other 13 original colonies started
using paper notes. In 1764 they start using the British Ban. In 1785 the Congress adopted
the dollar as the official money unit of the United States of America. The first general
circulation the paper money by the US government began with greenbacks in 1861. In
1905 the US started printing currency with a gold tinted background and a red seal and
serial-number. The motel in God we trust started being printed on all the currencies in
1955 by law. By 1990 they have developed the security threat in the microphone thing so
that it would be harder to replicate the money. In 1996 there is a currency redesign the
first significant design change in 67 years. The US redesigned its currency to incorporate
a series of new counterfeit to obstacles. New designs will be undertaken every 7 to 10
years to stay ahead of counterfeits. Into thousand three the US government started to
use subtle background colors beginning with the $20 note. The different colors and
different bills help consumers to differentiate between denominations. They continue to
do this with the other bills.
This experience was definitely a good one. I learned a lot about different currencies. Wegot to take pictures with the million dollars, which in my opinion was really interesting.
