Forgery and Counterfeit (2024)

Create a chart to answer each of these questions for the $1, $5, $10, $20, and $100 bills. Note: you should only use newer bills to do this activity.
Front of the bill

1. Whose picture is on the front of the bill?
2. What is written across the very top of the front of the bill?
3. What is printed on the very bottom of the front of the bill?
4. What seal appears on the front, left side?
5. What seal appears on the front, right side?
6. What is the date you find on the bill?
7. Who was the Secretary of Treasury at the time this bill was issued?
8. Who was the U.S. Treasurer at the time the bill was issued?
9. Record the serial number for this bill.
10. How many places on the bill is the serial number printed?

Back of the bill

1. What words are printed on the top line?
2. What words are printed on the bottom line?
3. What image appears on the back on the left side?
4. What image appears on the right side?
5. What reference to God appears on the back of the bill?

Security Features

1. While looking at the bills, list whatthe different security features are for each bill. Be specific.

Questions to answer

1. Counterfeiters sometimes collect dollar bills and bleach them to remove the ink. Using an old-style printer, they will print images of a higher-denomination bill on the bleached paper. What is the advantage of bleaching the dollar bill over just printing the higher-denomination bill onto clean paper?
2. Why has it been necessary to make so many changes to our paper currency in the past 30 years as compared to the last 100 years?
3. Of all the safeguards added to our higher-denomination currency, which do you consider the most important and why?Counterfeiters try to pass off their counterfeit money at public events where many people gather. Many people are working retail for the first time and are not trained in checking larger bills to see if they are genuine or counterfeit. Provide a list of four items to check that will quickly and easily tell you whether a new $10 bill is authentic.

The Seven Denominations

Counterfeiting has become a major business in the US, but also in many other countries. Due to this fact, the US is constantly changing the security features in US currency. The US Department of Treasury has come to you and asked you to redesign a bill of your choice ($5, $10, $20 or $100) Research the different security features and characteristics of currency throughout the world and create a design for the new bill. You will create a presentation (electronic or hard copy) to include the following:

• A description of the bill that you will be creating, with detailed dimensions.
• What your bill will be made out of
• The design of the bill
• The security features of the bill
• Explanation of the symbolism on the bill
• A model of the bill
• Logical reasoning as to why your bill should be chosen as compared to other bills, including the current bill

That's All She Wrote

Requirements and Rubric