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  3. The workmanship of the Supernote was extraordinary. It had sequential serial numbers, and the printing plates continued to be re

The workmanship of the Supernote was extraordinary. It had sequential serial numbers, and the printing plates continued to be re

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问题 The workmanship of the Supernote was extraordinary. It had sequential serial numbers, and the printing plates continued to be refined. A Secret Service agent identified Kelly’ s two samples as Supernotes by three minuscule imperfections. Even when the flaws were pointed out, Kelly says, "I frankly couldn’ t see the damn imperfections.
Most alarming of all, the Supernote was so well engineered that it could fool currency scanners at the nation’ s twelve Federal Reserve banks. The black ink on the front of American currency contains ferrous oxide, which is magnetic, and the Fed’ s scanners read the magnetic field down the center line of the portrait with such precision that a thousand genuine hundred-dollar bills are rejected for every one that is later found to be counterfeit. Yet, Kelly recalls, " Secret Service told me the bills went through those machines".
The Supernote, Kelly learned, had been circulating in Europe, the Far East, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union, but only limited supply had reached the United States. This was not reassuring. Of the almost three hundred and ninety billion dollars in American paper money now in existence, some two-thirds, or more than two hundred and fifty billion, is in foreign hands. The worldwide popularity of the dollar is a tremendous boon to the United States. The Federal Reserve is fond of pointing out, every bill in circulation is in effect an interest-free loan; an equivalent amount in government securities would cost the United States more than twenty-five billion dollars in annual interest payments. The beauty of bills stuffed in a mattress in Kazakhstan, for instance, is the good chance that the notes will never be called in. The Supernote was by no means the first foreign-made or foreign-distributed counterfeit of American currency, but because of its frightening and unprecedented quality it seemed singularly poised to damage world confidence in the dollar.
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答案 超级假币的制造工艺精致无比。有一条连续的序列编号，制版工艺也在不断地改进。一位特工确认凯利的两张假币样品是超级假币，但同时也指出其中有三处微小的瑕疵。即使指出了这些瑕疵，凯利说：“坦率地讲，我实在是看不出这些毛病。” 最令人担忧的是，超级假币伪造得如此逼真，它可以骗过全国所有12家联邦储备银行的验钞机。美国货币正面的黑色油墨中含有氧化亚铁，有磁性，联邦验钞机可以读出画像中线以下的磁场，精确度极高。如果混有假币，检测出一张假币，同时将有1 000张真币也会被检测为不合格。但是，凯利回忆道，“特工告诉我，这两张假币竟得以蒙混过关。” 凯利了解到，超级假币曾在欧洲、远东、中东以及前苏联流行，但是只有很少一部分流进了美国。然而情况并不乐观。如今流通中的3，900亿美元纸币当中，大约有三分之二即2，500亿美元在外国人手中。美元全球吃香，对美国是件天大的好事。正如美国联邦储备局乐于指出的那样，每一张流通中的美国纸币就是一份免息的贷款：发行相同数量的政府债券美国政府每年要支付250亿美元利息。哈萨克斯坦人在床垫下藏着的美元，它的可贵之处在于这些美元永远不会进入流通领域。超级美元并不是外国人第一次制造发行的美元假币，然而由于超级假币足以乱真的质量令人生畏，世界人民对美元的信任看来会因此而造成很大的损害。
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