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Tips for identifying fake currency

VIJAYAWADA: How to identify a counterfeit currency note? Though there are many ways, the easiest is to observe the number panel. Currency notes have serial numbers on the top right corner and bottom left corner. A genuine note will have a bigger font of the number, while a counterfeit note will have a little smaller font.

Explaining many more such techniques to the staff working in branches of different banks and a few select customers at a workshop organised by the State Bank of Hyderabad on Wednesday, Assistant Manager of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) D.C. Srinivas said that one could easily trace a counterfeit note even if was placed in a bundle of genuine notes, provided one had considerable knowledge of the unique features of genuine notes.

Besides the number series, one could check the genuineness of a currency note by examining the paper used in its making, the watermarking, the security thread and the micro lettering on it.

“The RBI uses a special quality paper to print currency notes. The paper is made at Nepanagar in Madhya Pradesh. Features like security thread and watermarking are added at the time of manufacturing of the paper itself,” he said.

Mr. Srinivas said alphabets I, J, O, X, Y and Z were not being used in the series of notes being released by the RBI. “In watermarking, one can see the image of a smiling Mahatma Gandhi. But in counterfeit notes, you can’t find the Mahatma smiling. He would only be serious or have a sorrowful appearance,” he said, adding in a lighter vein: “The reason is that Gandhiji had never encouraged unlawful activities.”

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