# Foreign counterfeiting of US Currency?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 24, 2001, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-counterfeiting-of-us-currency/66357 "2001-05-24T04:27:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2001, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-counterfeiting-of-us-currency/66357/21 "2001-05-26T04:19:47Z")

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I do remember reports of the “superdollar” being one stimulus to redesign of the more popular currency, that was accompanied as a concern with advances in the graphical reproduction capabilities becoming more widely available to the populace.

But in my perception I’l have to echo what **Whack-a-Mole** and **flowbark** seem to be saying: in physical terms it would be one hell of a job to actually perceptibly knock down the value of United States currency with cash.

An ancillary thought occurs: as long as the funny money stayed away from banking institutions than can detect it (i.e., stayed in the “Third World”), might a flood of such actually expand the world economy a little bit?

I think counterfeiting cash _can_ benefit the purveyor in the short term, locally or regionally, but a global attack’s effectiveness is both unsure and unlikely IMHE.

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