“Researchers decipher the secrets of Benjamin Franklin’s paper money”
I suspect that one secret is that when people looked behind the currency they saw gold.
Wow, amazing info about Franklin.
That was pretty clever with the black ink being made from graphite. All anyone would have had to do to spot a counterfeit was to run a bit of the ink through a mass spectrometer.
Interesting article. The only question I have is this. How would somebody of that era have detected said security measures? Particularly the ink composition?
Ol’ Ben was a pretty smart guy.
A pity Franklin never thought of a way to stop the government from making dollars nearly worthless by printing trillions of them.
At Intel, we found that crooks were remarking product indicating higher performance than was true. We added micro taggants to ink that were made from multiple layers of various depositions on silicon.
As a side note to this thread, please consider the following.
"Researchers decipher the secrets of Benjamin Franklin's paper money"
Given that Benjamin Franklin was one of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention, he probably supported Article I, Section 10, Clause 1, which prohibits the states from using anything but gold and silver currency for legal tender.
"Article I, Section 10, Clause 1: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts [emphases added]; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility."
Trump 47 will need to lead hopefully a bunch of new state and federal patriot lawmakers and executives to decide how to redress the nation's corrupt, unconstitutional (imo) banking system.
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I wonder if Manukyan is from manayunk?
All about da benjamins...
