# which country has the toughest money to counterfiet **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 18, 2006, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-country-has-the-toughest-money-to-counterfiet/357234 "2006-05-18T05:31:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![northern\_canuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58956e/32.png) [@northern\_canuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/northern_canuck)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-country-has-the-toughest-money-to-counterfiet/357234/1 "2006-05-18T05:31:36Z")
It always struck me the American greenback was the dullest currency compared to many other countries and outwardly it looks like it is the easiest to counterfiet compared to countries like Australia with a plastic colored money or Canada with its interferrence strips and other outwardly visible security features. I know some countries do not print their own money. What country produces the most currencies for other countries? ---
**Author:** ![Jeffr062](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@Jeffr062](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeffr062)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-country-has-the-toughest-money-to-counterfiet/357234/2 "2006-05-18T05:36:09Z")
Australia > **[Australian Currency](https://xray.sai.msu.ru/~mystery/images/money/AU/)** Ive seen those plastic notes, tough! ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-country-has-the-toughest-money-to-counterfiet/357234/3 "2006-05-18T05:48:22Z")
[QUOTE=northern canuck] I know some countries do not print their own money. What country produces the most currencies for other countries? [/QUOTE] The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) [website](http://www.rba.gov.au/CurrencyNotes/CurrencyNoteProduction/who.html) mentions that the RBA’s subsidiary company Note Printing Australian Limited: > [@](#): > > has printed polymer notes for a growing number of overseas countries including Bangladesh, Brunei, Chile, Indonesia, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Western Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka and Thailand. I’m not sure whether notes are still being printed for all of those countries at the moment though. Some more details of the security features in Australian notes are [here.](http://www.rba.gov.au/CurrencyNotes/SecurityFeaturesAndCounterfeitDetection/security_features_on_australias_notes.html) ---
**Author:** ![blinkingblinking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@blinkingblinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinkingblinking)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-country-has-the-toughest-money-to-counterfiet/357234/4 "2006-05-18T10:56:31Z")
I have worked in casinos in Australia and New Zealand. When the new plastic money came in I thought this will be next to impossible to counterfeit. But every few months in both countries we would get regular training in how to spot counterfeit currency, what the newest ones were etc. The Christchurch, NZ casino scans every note at the tables with UV scanners to detect counterfeits. We were shown a NZ $100 note copy that was suberb-even the authorities could not tell it from a real note. Only thing was every one of those perfect conterfeit notes had the same serial number. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-country-has-the-toughest-money-to-counterfiet/357234/5 "2006-05-18T12:26:17Z")
Hmm.. the Triganic Ningi immediately sprang to mind: > [@The Restaurant at the End of the Universe](#): > > [T]he Triganic Pu has its own very special problems. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles across each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency, because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-country-has-the-toughest-money-to-counterfiet/357234/6 "2006-05-18T12:37:20Z")
[QUOTE=northern canuck] It always struck me the American greenback was the dullest currency compared to many other countries and outwardly it looks like it is the easiest to counterfiet compared to countries like Australia with a plastic colored money or Canada with its interferrence strips and other outwardly visible security features. I know some countries do not print their own money. What country produces the most currencies for other countries? [/QUOTE] Well, things have changed, but years agom the US dollar was considered extremely difficult to counterfeit (in the sense of making copies that could pass as real). During WWII, the Nazis had a plan to flood the UK with counterfeit banknotes; the Churchill government got wind of it and recalled all notes. At the same time, they were trying to make counterfeit US dollars. Despite the fact that they had the resources of a government behind them, and could work without fear of being arrested, they were not able to make US bills.