Thanks for posting. A very similar operation is happening today in North Korea: Millions of counterfeit USD/CNY/EUR are printed and laundered through NK banks every year[0]. Turns out somebody has already done it before.<p>[0]:<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar</a>
<i>"A lowly, underpaid teller who worked part-time at a jeweler to help make ends meet had become suspicious of the Banco Angola e Metropole. The Escudo notes he received were never in numerical order (Reis’s plan to shuffle the banknotes to avoid detection actually caused detection),[...]"</i><p>Rats. The Germans got caught with the WWII tank serial numbers, this guy sidesteps that (years before), gets caught.<p>Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
I like that one of the high end techniques was to social-engineer a banknote printing company of repute, to print your banknotes.<p>Those moments when high end US government officials get given proof sheets of banknotes, one-sided half-printed notes, Steve Woz gets his banknotes bound into a cheque-book like thing.. They're on the fringe of 'what is money' questions too.
"Historical examples of government-induced debasement include: [...]"<p>Does the switch of many EU countries switching to EUR count in this context as a valid example as well?