RE: New $5 bill goes into circulation - Los Angeles Times by unmanaged at 10:02 pm EDT, Mar 14, 2008
bucy wrote:
Customs officials had no plans to upgrade the $5 bill until they discovered that counterfeiters were bleaching $5 bills and printing $100 bills on the paper because the security thread was in the same spot on both. In addition, both bills contained a portrait watermark in the same spot, making them difficult to distinguish.
