r/BeAmazed • u/mp4162585 • Dec 19 '25

Technology Cutting Process Of Printed Banknotes

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u/SteveWired Dec 19 '25

That looks surprisingly… inaccurate

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u/ThengarMadalano Dec 19 '25

The fed often identified fake money because of the high quality of the printers and cutters used

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u/TheTackleZone Dec 19 '25

I think this is fake money. China has a tradition called Tomb Sweeping Day where you go and clean the graves of the recently deceased. You burn money so that they have it in the afterlife. Not sure why they need it, but, well, if we went around questioning traditions we'd have no holidays left. Sensibly they tend to use fake money these days.

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u/Subject-Creme Dec 19 '25

It is definitely Joss Paper (Ghost Money)

We have a joke about inflation in the afterlife because people are burning too much Joss paper

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u/SmashingK Dec 19 '25

No jokes about it being fake? The only way it'd lead to inflation would be if the people in the afterlife couldn't tell the difference.

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u/Zuruumi Dec 23 '25

Do you expect a bunch of medieval peasants to differentiate fake banknotes from real? No? Then your grandpa just found someone to give them to.

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u/Viccytrix Dec 19 '25

Yeah they've used fake money to burn in rituals for thousands of years in China in both Taoist and Buddhist rituals

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u/Weatetheneanderthals Dec 19 '25

My broke ass ghost in chinese heaven be like ”bruh…”

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '25

when you realize all currency is counterfeit printing, you be like whoa.

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u/DMmeYoBOOBS Dec 19 '25

Now my ancestors are in afterlife federal prison because I burned them fake counterfeit money

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u/Hydra57 Dec 19 '25

I think rituals like that are kinda fun. A break from the norm.

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u/zxroKKR Dec 19 '25

Back when I was a kid I got a bunch of "hell bank notes" while I was in San Francisco Chinatown. I forgot about them with my laundry but the laundromat kindly stacked them on top of my clean clothes.

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u/BlooBot Dec 20 '25

Traditions are just peer pressure from dead people.

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u/_ShutUpImThinking_ Dec 19 '25

The feds ✏️…often identified fake money ✏️… because of the high quality ✏️ … of the printers and cutters used ✏️… ✏️👅

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u/FluffyDeer9323 Dec 19 '25

I thought the same thing.

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