How do you make fake money?

Answer 1

Counterfeiting has been around as long as there has been currency. In older days when gold was a standard, people would treat lead coins to appear as gold. For every currency there's a different answer. More recently (1980's through 1990's) there was an attack on American currency. The story is as follows -- note that for obvious reasons, some of the details are missing. The AMerican $100 and $50 bills were duped. This apparently happened on a full scale money printing press with intaglio capabilities. The counterfeits were nearly impossible to distinguish from the originals which, reportedly, led to the new design on the $100, $50, $20, $10, and $5 bills. However, even with the new and extensive security measures incorporated into those bills, it seems another "superbill" may have emerged. While no country has been officially accused, sanctions against North Korea have been enacted by the US and Japan. At this time, some sources estimate that 1 in 10,000 bills may be a superbill. So -- in direct answer to your question -- start with getting the money together to buy the presses and cut the dies -- and of course rent or buy the facilitiy where you'll do the printing. So -- start with at least $125 million, which likely isn;t enough money for your distribution network (what do you DO with 50,000 $5 bills? A whole lot of lotto? :} ). I can go on, but you get the point. You'll need special paper that one can't buy, so you'll have to have it made - -which was hard even in the old days. Inserting the security strips, watermark and refractive indexing on the various denomination numbers requires a series of complex, expensive processes, not all of which are well-described by the Dept. of the Treasury. Even creating the dies and then recreating them when they wear out is wildly expensive and time consuming. If you're funded as stated above, and perhaps a little more, and if you find the right artisans, in a few years you should be ready to print your first bill. Just about the time they change the money again :} In this day and age, printing passable counterfeit money is way beyond the scope of the individual or even a large organization. It's now in the realm of countries and sovreignities. The process is intentionally complex and costly -- it only pays off if you're printing bills for an entire nation.