Video Archives
Introduction to Paper Money Production and Counterfeit Detection
Instructor: Joseph Boling
This class will cover printing technologies used by security printers and the more likely technologies used by counterfeiters.
U.S. National Bank Note Counterfeits and Counterfeits of Chinese Paper Money
Instructor: Joseph Boling
This two-hour presentation will cover two topics. We will start with counterfeits of large-size national bank notes that were mostly circulated in the 19th century. When the Bureau of Engraving and Printing assumed the responsibility for printing national currency, many employees of the contract printers who had been doing this work no longer had jobs. Some turned their skills to creating notes on the QT; those are what we will examine. As bad notes were identified in circulation, these craftsmen modified the plates they were using so that notes of a different bank became their product. One can trace several generations of counterfeits to single original plates. After the break, we will take up more modern products – notes of China from 1948 to today being pushed into Western markets from Chinese sources. The market for Chinese paper money has been overheated, but is still quite active; if you collect these series, you need to see this presentation. As for all of my presentations, you will be best served if you watch the introductory session on printing technologies here.
More on Paper and Money Counterfeits
Instructor: Joseph Boling
In the first session on this subject, when time expired we were in the middle of a slide set showing how counterfeiters evade or replicate security features on banknotes. In this session, we will finish that discussion and move to the history of state-on-state counterfeiting – a practice dating back to the American Revolutionary War. If you missed the first session, you can watch it ahead of time here.