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Counterfeit Cash
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Instead of robbing or stealing directly, some criminals prefer to make fake bills — that way, not only do they not have to pay for whatever they're "buying", they get real money back as change. It can be anywhere from one dude operating a low-grade printer out of his garage to a gang using a top-end press making super-bills. Sometimes, this extends to creating fake coins as well. In other words, "Screw the rules, I make my own money!" When Played for Laughs, there will be a GLARING difference between real and fake bills, like the counterfeiter's face instead of Benjamin Franklin or Queen Elizabeth, or "unconventional" denominations such as a $37 bill. Counterfeiting rings tend to be popular villains for Kid Detectives and other G-rated heroes, since the crime is serious enough to call for legitimate secrecy and cunning, but not instantly synonymous with Family-Unfriendly Violence like robbery or drug-dealing. That said, don't expect every counterfeiter (fictional or otherwise) to be a pushover; it takes a lot of muscle to carry all those printing plates, after all... Compare Magical Counterfeiting, where money or other items of value are duplicated by magical means rather than messing about with coin stamps or printing plates. |
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In one episode, Barney once played a practical joke on Fred by building a fake counterfeiting press (the bills it "printed" being real money Barney won in a contest). Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Dale Gribble from King of the Hill was noted to have started printing his own money; Hank's face appears on the "100-gribble bill". | |
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In The Daily Star, the crooked shopkeepers printing a tabloid quickly find more lucrative uses for their printing press, like counterfeiting money. Then Greeley interviews the banker after the crooks are caught... | |
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In "Genie Meany Minie Mo", Timmy tries to use Norm's rule-free wishes to get around this by wishing his family was billionaires. Norm wastes no time in reality-warping Timmy's Bumbling Dad into a counterfeiter wanted by the police. | |
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A Christmas Episode of Only Fools and Horses, "To Hull and Back", had Del acting as a courier between Boycie and some Dutch diamond smugglers. Del quickly realises the cash Boycie gave him for the transaction is counterfeit. What he doesn't realise is that his own payment for services isn't fake, and the episode ends with him throwing it away. | |
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Possibly an urban legend, but according to several sources, back before the fall of the Shah of Iran, the US was helping the country modernize their currency system, supplying intaglio presses, the fancy paper with red and blue threads in, and even sample $20 plates to show how the serial numbers worked. Then came the Iranian revolution. Some large proportion of $20s were said to be these indistinguishable "Superdollars", but supposedly changing things would have been too difficult until the redesign in 1998. | |
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The Great Depression | |
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The adage "Don't take any wooden nickels!" dates from The Great Depression, when counterfeiters would cut out little nickel-sized discs of wood and paint them so that they resembled a nickel if you didn't look too closely. One way to tell the difference was to bite on the coin; the 75% copper 25% nickel alloy of an actual five-cent piece is pretty hard against the teeth, but wood has some give to it and will allow you to leave tooth marks in it. Or the alternative explanation: Shops would occasionally distribute promotional wooden tokens worth "five cents in trade at X's store". The catch being that if the shop went out of business (a common occurance during the Depression), the tokens would become worthless. |
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In another episode the prisoners find out that the Germans are trying to print fake money (British five-pound notes and American twenties) at Stalag 13. They manage to trick one of the workers (who was against counterfeiting anyway) into thinking that as soon as enough money has been printed to ruin the economies of the Allied nations, he'll be killed. He then works with them to set the building on fire so the prisoners can run in and trash the place under the pretext of fighting the fire. | |
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Another version of the trick has the crook selling the "money making machine" to a sucker (answering the obvious question by claiming that he needs a lot of money now and the machine is too slow). When the mark realizes he's been had, he's unlikely to report his own attempt to get into the counterfeiting business. In some versions, the mark does report the case... only to get more years than the seller. |
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Money Fetish | |
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Believe it or not, Mr. Krabs once did this at the end of "The Krabby Kronicle" after the titular newspaper business he had started went bust. Although being Mr. Krabs, he might not plan to spend any of it, as shown in "Money Talks". | |
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Based on a True Story | |
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The story of Emerich Juettner (see Real Life folder for the details) inspired the 1950 movie Mister 880, named after the number of his Secret Service case file. Said movie was later adapted into an episode of The 20th Century-Fox Hour anthology series, "The Moneymaker" (aired October 31, 1956). Ironically, the real Juettner made more money from the movie than he did in his entire counterfeiting career. | |
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The Tasty Gold trope of biting into money to check its authenticity is Truth in Television. Back in the days of gold coinage, if the coin wasn't soft enough it had probably been alloyed with some cheaper metal, making the coin harder. On the other hand, if the coin was too soft, then the coin had been alloyed with lead, which actually made the coin softer (but again less valuable). Archimedes' famous discovery happened because of this: the king wanted a way to determine whether his crown was pure gold, or whether its composition had been mixed with other shiny metals—but he didn't want to bite his beautiful crown. What Archimedes realized was that if you mix base metals into the gold, the result will occupy more volume than the same weight in pure gold (since gold is denser than most metals it would be alloyed with). Dip the item in question into water and mark how far the water rises. Dip the same weight of gold into the water. If the item is made of pure gold, the water will rise by the same level. If the item is fake, the water won't rise as far when the pure gold is immersed. |
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The story "The Joker's Millions" has the Joker inheriting rival mob boss "King" Barlowe's fortune, only to find out most of it was fake. Posthumously, Barlowe knew the clown would waste the real cash quickly and now has to choose between admitting a dead man conned him and become Gotham's Butt-Monkey (which he won't do due to his tremendous ego), getting jailed for tax evasion (which he can't do either), or returning to crime to pay off the inheritance taxes and protect his image. This was later adapted into an episode for The New Batman Adventures. | |
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Pride | |
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There was an infamous counterfeiter who was known as the Omega man. The only flaw in the coins he made was a tiny Greek letter he added to them. | |
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Ridiculous Exchange Rates | |
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Counterfeit Money is a frequent problem in China. However, only higher-value notes tend to be counterfeited. This results with an odd situation where the jiao (RMB equivalent of cents) notes are much lower in quality than the yuan notes, their texture almost resembling counterfeited money. The idea is that the jiao are worth so little that nobody would bother counterfeiting them anyway. | |
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Common Knowledge | |
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The primary function of the United States Secret Service is not protecting the President of the United States (that's a secondary function) but investigating cases of counterfeiting and forgery. The presidential protection duty was added in 1901 because the Secret Service was at the time the only federal law enforcement agency with sufficient manpower, and anti-counterfeiting mission has been expanded to cover all manner of financial crimes, but the bulk of their work is still tracking down counterfeiters. The Other Wiki details it here. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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In an All Just a Dream episode, Phineas gets a job as a printer. He starts printing fake bills, only for the FBI to burst in... but they're looking for pornography, and don't care about the cash, because "that stuff soon won't be worth the paper it's printed on." | |
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