The E-Sylum:  Volume 9, Number 20, May 14, 2006, Article 21

NEW JAPANESE BANKNOTE MISPRINT LEADS TO VENDING MACHINE REJECTION

According to a Reuters account, "Japan's high-tech money-printing
bureau was left humbled on Tuesday when 39,500 bills were found to
be misprinted, an error that caused vending machines across the
country to reject them.

The 1,000-yen (5 pound) bills, redesigned along with other
denominations in 2004 with sophisticated security features to
fight counterfeiting, had been printed with a fault unrecognisable
to the eye but detectable by some machines, the Bank of Japan said."

"Japan beefed up its anti-counterfeiting drive in 2004 with new
designs featuring holograms, watermarks and latent images in its
first major overhaul in 20 years."

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