The U.S. Banknote Printing Bureau is located in the administrative center of downtown DC. It looks like a government office, not a factory. Not many tourists come to visit, let alone people from China. The tour is free. Pick up the ticket at the front door and enter at the back door. It takes about 20 minutes. The distance between the front door and the back door is about 100 meters, which shows that its scale is much smaller than that of the banknote printing factory in Shanghai.
The picture shows that the real invention of paper money began when the Northern Song government issued and used it in Sichuan.
You know, paper money was invented by me in the Northern Song Dynasty, which probably appeared in A.D. 1023. It was run by private businessmen in Sichuan and was run by government officials soon after. The Northern Song Dynasty was more than 300 years earlier than the Ming Dynasty. The author was very unhappy when he saw the legend of Daming paper money. When he returned home, he thought, is it a long-distance call to the gentlemen of the American banknote bureau? Let them be more professional when introducing the relevant knowledge of the history of coins in China.
It is reported that all the printed dollars are here, and now another one is set up to expand the scale. In addition to overseas printing, there are also places like Shenyang and Shenzhen in China. Considering the global printing scale of the United States, the efficiency is still quite high.
Before the tour, the commentator introduced the US dollar printing procedure: the US Federal Reserve determined the plan, and the printing paper was transferred from the storage point of 2 1 and printed within 72 hours. When the special banknote printing paper is completed on a highly automated printing machine, each banknote has 14 colors, while the special paper before printing has 4 colors and watermarks. According to the law, no one is allowed to own this kind of paper.
5% of printed paper money is used to update paper money on the market. Since the issuance of US dollar bills, only 2 yuan denominations have been withdrawn from circulation, but there is a very small amount of printing. This is because 2 yuan's face value dollar bills only exist for the hobby of collecting coins. Due to the different issue years, the previously issued 2 yuan dollar bills have appreciated by 100 times in the collection market.
Note: The above picture shows US dollar bills with face value of 1 yuan and 2 yuan respectively.
Tourists visiting the process of printing money in the United States is different from that in Australia. The United States is not allowed to take photos, while Australia can take photos at will.
The picture shows that in the coin collection, the most troublesome thing is the fake. How to prevent counterfeiting? The easiest way is to buy conjoined banknotes in banknotes, that is, several banknotes are printed without cutting, and they are still connected.
This is because forgers can do everything possible to make a banknote template carefully, but it is impossible to make several banknotes together into a large template under limited conditions. This difficulty will be enormous. Therefore, despite the serious situation of RMB counterfeit currency, counterfeit currency has never appeared in this collection of RMB conjoined banknotes. It can be seen that conjoined banknotes have become a unique collection variety in the world coin collection field.
The picture shows all kinds of U.S. dollar bills displayed by the sales department of the U.S. Banknote Printing Bureau, but all of them are quadruple or quintuple bills when they are sold. Because the collection of banknotes can never be folded, it will be very troublesome and difficult to store and carry oversized banknotes.
Does the anti-counterfeiting technology of the global dollar need to face the counterfeiters all over the world? A passionate challenge? The difficulty must be enormous. Commentators of the US Banknote Printing Bureau are reluctant to say more about this, and the anti-counterfeiting technology of the US dollar is quite credible and stable from the current practice. Compared with RMB anti-counterfeiting technology, we still have a considerable gap.
Now the fifth edition of RMB anti-counterfeiting technology has fallen behind, and counterfeit money has almost become everyone's heart disease! I hope we can improve our anti-counterfeiting technology quickly. You know, China's brilliant record in the history of world currency not only invented paper money at the earliest, but also set a good example for countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia to follow for thousands of years. Backwardness has never been our tradition.
Fortunately, with the rapid development of mobile phones in China in recent years, the problem of counterfeit money has been greatly alleviated, and it is even more exciting to embark on the road of digital currency.
By the way, here is the advanced technology of Australian coinage mentioned above. At present, there is almost no need to distinguish the authenticity of the Australian dollar on the bank counter, because there are too many anti-counterfeiting technologies piled up on the Australian dollar: plastic substrate, transparent window plus shrink printing, holographic color printing image, ink-free printing and so on. , with obvious feel and visual effect, almost all counterfeit money makers are shunned! Because of Australia's advanced coinage technology, many countries are now applying for its patents.
Here again, Australia is not only in the leading position in paper money technology, but also has its own characteristics in the manufacture of metal coins, and enjoys a high reputation in the manufacture of precious metal and ordinary metal commemorative coins. Its coins are produced in Perth, southern China, not Canberra.
After visiting the Perfect Federal Banknote Printing Bureau, I have another feeling: our Shanghai Banknote Printing Factory has been asked by the relevant departments to open its doors for free public visits for many years, but it has not been opened for a long time. I wonder if this matter will drag on until the Year of the Monkey?