1993-07-30 - Tracing Cash

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From: Eric Blossom <eb@srlr14.sr.hp.com>
To: thug@phantom.com
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UTC Datetime: 1993-07-30 19:52:57 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 30 Jul 93 12:52:57 PDT

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From: Eric Blossom <eb@srlr14.sr.hp.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 93 12:52:57 PDT
To: thug@phantom.com
Subject: Tracing Cash
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> BTW, cash can be traced even without bar codes, since serial numbers can
> be read by OCR.  

The few $50 and $100 bills I've looked at over the past year or so
have had a light colored vertical stripe on them that was slightly raised
above the surface of the paper and had *small* numbers on it.  

Seems like it was designed to make counterfeiting harder and money
easier to trace.






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