STREAM OF BANK NOTES
EXPORTED FROM BRITAIN
Bank notes for export are being made by Britain at lop pressure- i7l ! jt ■ midsc of the ' J/bl». " MO/0 m"iicy 11. an Shy lock - ver ti-ought of heing shipped out in a steady stream to destinations which meanwhile
must remain undisclosed
It costs quite a lot to make it: one recent order for currency notes meant a bill cf £"500,000 to the l'o>
eign State concerned
The cost is not surprising when it is remembered that, if a country orders some mil! ions of cu/rencv notes, it will naturally demand something which will defeat the cleverest of forgers. 1
Britain's bank note makers achieve this by the use of specially prepared papers and watermarks, by trick printing and by the most delicate engraving. An engraver, who earns his £1000 a year, Avill spenrl weeks, full time, to complete a tiny tsortrait to defy the forger-
The head on a bank note, very little bigger than lialf-a-crown, will cost £000 to produce.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 140, 11 August 1941, Page 5
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168STREAM OF BANK NOTES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 140, 11 August 1941, Page 5
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