* " English " counterfeit banknote 500 zloty 1940 issued by Bank Emisyjny

Counterfeit banknote detection pens are used to detect counterfeit Swiss franc, euro and United States banknotes amongst others.

Due to poor banknote quality ( both talonas and early litas ) it was easy to counterfeit them.

The banknote is more durable than paper, won't become soaked in liquids and is harder to counterfeit, though not impossible.

Gold is, however, a difficult material to counterfeit without detection due to its unique density and colour.

Black light lamps are also used for the detection of counterfeit money.

" The Secret Service does not include such pens in their guidelines for the public's detection of counterfeit US currency.

Customized dyes and taggants have been developed for a wide variety of applications including ; waste water tracking, biologic activity, part inspection, subsea pipeline leak detection, counterfeit detection, genetic tracing, disease and health studies, and DNA replication.

Critics claim that professional counterfeiters use starch-free paper, making the pen unable to detect the majority of counterfeit money in circulation.

Magician and skeptic James Randi has written about the ineffectiveness of counterfeit pens on numerous occasions and uses a pen as an example during his lectures.

It is a satanic counterfeit, an ecclesiastic tyranny over the souls of men .... It is the old harlot of the book of the Revelation —' the Mother of Harlots.

Collecting counterfeits and forgeries is a controversial area because of the possibility that counterfeits might someday reenter the coin market as authentic coins, but US statutory and case law do not explicitly prohibit possession of counterfeit coins.

The Mint states that multi-ply plated steel technology, already used in Canada's smaller coinage, produces an electromagnetic signature that is harder to counterfeit than that for regular alloy coins ; also, using steel provides cost savings and avoids fluctuations in price or supply of nickel.

Paper used for banknotes does not contain optical brighteners, so a common method for detecting counterfeit notes is to check for fluorescence.

One of the risks of accepting secondhand goods is that the item may be counterfeit.

If the item is counterfeit, such as a fake Rolex watch, it may have only a fraction of the value of the genuine item.

The Mint states that multi-ply plated steel technology, already used in Canada's smaller coinage, produces an electromagnetic signature that is harder to counterfeit than that for regular alloy coins ; also, using steel provides cost savings and avoids fluctuations in price or supply of nickel.

The collector can affix an inconspicuous identifying tag or seal that is virtually impossible to counterfeit.

The cheque given to the victim is typically counterfeit but drawn on a real account with real funds in it.

With a piece of software like QuickBooks and / or pre-printed blank cheque stock, using the correct banking information, the scammer can easily print a cheque that is absolutely genuine-looking, passes all counterfeit tests, and may even clear the paying account if the account information is accurate and the funds are available.

A copper block printed paper money dated between 1215-1216 in the collection of Luo Zhenyu's Pictorial Paper Money of the Four Dynasties, 1914, shows two special characters one called Ziliao, the other called Zihao for the purpose of preventing counterfeit ; over the Ziliao there is a small character ( 輶 ) printed with movable copper type, while over the Zihao there is an empty square hole, apparently the associated copper metal type was lost.

Del-Boy is a wide-boy who makes a dubious living in Peckham, south London, trading in shoddy, stolen, and counterfeit goods.

Approximately 100, 000 counterfeit euro coins are taken from circulation annually, and a similar number is seized before it can be released.

The number of counterfeit € 2 coins being found annually is decreasing, while numbers of counterfeit € 1 and 50-cent coins are increasing.

A sense of " to counterfeit " is already in the Anglo-French verb forger, meaning " falsify.

Sung Tse-Ho ( Ti Lung ) works for the Triad, whose principal operation is printing and distributing counterfeit US bank notes.

As he wrote, " Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

At the base, the astronauts are informed they will help counterfeit the television footage during the flight to and from Mars, and that it is their patriotic duty to participate for the sake of national morale and prestige.

In these industries, a part made of the wrong material is called " counterfeit ," even if the substitution was accidental.

Drew is popularly credited with introducing what would be called " watered stock " to the New York financial district, to describe company shares that were issued by false means such as counterfeit certificates or shares issued that were not authorized, resulting in a dilution of ownership ; the term supposedly came from his time in the cattle business, when he would have his cattle drink water before selling them, to increase their weight temporarily.

However, it has been proven that an authentic smile is much more effective than a counterfeit smile.

The paper notes are validated by means of a widely-available device known as a " fake-meter "; in The Killing Machine, Kirth Gersen intercepts a communication that allows him to deduce how the validation process works, and hence how to counterfeit currency.

A currency detector or currency validator is a device that determines whether bills or coins are genuine or counterfeit.

On December 4, 2006, it was confirmed that this stamp used on the ballot was a counterfeit.

One man basically had a counterfeit money machine within EverQuest 2 and used it to spread currency on every server for what could be a large financial gain.

Because there were so many kinds of coins ( versus the one kind that Han used ), people became unable to recognize the kinds of coins as genuine or as counterfeit, and the money-based economy came to a halt.

The term provenance is used when ascertaining the source of goods such as computer hardware to assess if they are genuine or counterfeit.

CWA states that many state and federal laws define marriage as a legal union between a man and a woman, and it calls all forms of civil unions or domestic partnership between same-sex individuals " counterfeit marriage " that the group believes will be used " to take control and to have the force of law to legitimise their disordered, unnatural behaviors.

It is alleged that counterfeit currency was used to finance the rescue of the arrested former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in 1943, but there is no evidence to confirm this.

For certain kinds of transactions ( such as for illegal goods like drugs or weapons ), gold or diamonds may be preferred as the medium of exchange — there being no recourse in case of counterfeit currency being used — and there is rarely any deferral of payment: if there is, it will most likely be stated in dollars.

The metal has also been used to produce counterfeit Morgan dollars.

" The foregoing statute, however, does not prohibit the mutilation of coins, if the mutilated coins are not used fraudulently, i. e., with the intention of creating counterfeit coinage or profiting from the base metal ( the pre-1982 copper U. S. cent which, as of 2010, is worth more than one cent in the United States ).

In coin operated vending machines, eddy currents are used to detect counterfeit coins, or slugs.

Since the $ 2 bill makes up such a small percentage of paper money in circulation, the public sometimes mistakes $ 2 bills for being counterfeit when used in financial transactions.

Most people who are used to receiving e-mail know that this message is likely to be spam, more precisely a proposal to sell counterfeit copies of well-known brands of watches.

According to the experts at TNA, documents now shown to be forgeries supported controversial arguments central to each of Allen's books: in Hidden Agenda, five documents now known to be forged helped justify his claim that the Duke of Windsor betrayed military secrets to Hitler ; in The Hitler / Hess Deception, thirteen forged papers supported Allen's contention that, in 1941, British intelligence used members of the Royal Family to fool the Nazis into thinking Britain was on the verge of a pro-German putsch ; in Himmler's Secret War, twenty-two counterfeit papers also underpinned the book's core claims that British intelligence played mind games with Himmler to encourage him to betray Hitler from 1943 onwards, and that ultimately they murdered the SS chief.

These provisions can be used to restrict, through the use of injunctions and damages, the importation of goods that infringe or counterfeit registered trademarks.

Several North Korean diplomats have been arrested on suspicion of passing the counterfeit bills, but have used diplomatic immunity to evade charges.

Vehicles can also be used as part of a counterfeit cashier's check scam.

The fraudster accepts payment from the auction winner, but either never delivers the promised goods, or delivers an item that is less valuable than the one offered — for example, a counterfeit, refurbished, or used item.

# The image is not part of, nor does it contain, the product logo and so cannot be used to counterfeit the original product.

The widespread problem of counterfeit travellers cheques have caused a number of businesses to no longer accept them or to impose stringent checks when they are used.