How is the printing  of currency controlled?
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It's not really controlled until you get caught or use a color laser printer.  Laser printers embed codes into whatever they print.  You can find them pretty easily with a microscope and different colored light filters.
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Currency values between countries aren't controlled by any specific agency or anything, they're resultant of the economic factors in the various countries. A country can't just one day say 'hey, our currency's worth 10 times more than it was yesterday!' - it's a measure of how much money will by in the given countries versus production costs, etc. etc. - it isn't a controlled value.
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Scanners built into the vending machine scan the money into memory which compares it against images that are stored onto the firm wear.  That is why most vending machines require money be inserted in a certain fashion.  The scanner checks both top and bottom of the currency as well as the transparency of the material to make sure it is printed on the correct medium.  There are also some proprietary technology that is used to verify that it is proper currency.
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No way how can any country let alone USA give the rights to print the money for other countries. Thats in no way possible. That kind of a thing will affect the security and the economy of the country . So my answer is a Big NO
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Check your local bank, especially larger main branch banks.  They often have the ability to order foreign currency for clients of the bank and can often exchange it.
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We have different currencies because countries wish to maintain control of their own finances. The state of the  national currency is an important part of a nation's sovereign power.\n\nHow it works is really simple in principle. Currency is just another commodity for which people have varying needs and for which they are willing to pay varying amounts. Absent currency controls the value of a dollar, euro, yen or whatever is determined by what amount of other currencies people are willing to pay for them.
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It probably just made more sense to describe the amount and then the currency.  I see some written descriptions outside the US use the currency symbol afterward, like 637$.  Maybe we should all start doing it...:-)
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I don't understand why this is a big deal. Most other countries already do something along this line, and it's a simple fix. Canada has a pattern of raised dots in the upper right corner of their banknotes. Mexico is presently issuing banknotes with raised marks in the upper right hand corner. On Japanese banknotes, the raised dots are in the watermark area.\n\nThis is a case where the US trails behind the rest of the world. These markings are also a good anti-counterfieting measure (along with the iridescent bands used on the Canadian, Mexican, and Euro banknotes) and holograms (Used on Canadian and Euro notes). This is a case of the US being kind of stupid, since they don't want to spend money to make the US dollar harder to fake.\n\nComments?
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Here's a link to the Department Of Treasury's Bureau Of Engraving and Printing, the agency responsible for currency:
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haha I've always wondered this too. There is no way as far as I know. I just type 'divided by' or put a space so I can draw it after I've printed it.
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In the usa currencies are no longer backed by gold, it ended in the 1930's or 1960's i think.  It is now backed by the good faith of the usa government. Printing too much money would cause inflation for what one pays for good or services.\nThink of money like barry bonds rookie card.  If someone started dropping them from planes and passing them out at walmarts until everyone has one the value of the card would deflate because of supply and demand, now, imagine i want you to plow my driveway, are you gonna do it for a barry bonds rookie card knowing that everyone in the country has one. The world bank sets the amount, along with federal reserve and treasury department.
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A good question (but perhaps better off in the economics area of the site). Every pound or euro note you hold has been printed and spent by the state (before you receive it from your bank or employer or client), and on the day it was printed, the total number of pound notes in the country changed slightly.\n\n  This is the issue we are discussing here: how much money can a country print before it causes disaster?\n\n    The answer is that generally a country may print or create a small amount of cash on top of the notes it takes out of circulation, but while deciding how much to print, it must take a very careful look at recent inflation and exchange rate statistics.\n\n   If a country prints too much money, both the inflation and the exchange rates will go haywire / will be adversely affected. This is because, as money becomes more abundant but the things you buy with money do not, the ratio of people wanting to buy stuff and people selling stuff changes. \n\n  Simply put, if a country doubles the amount of money in circulation, then market forces will automatically take down the value of the exchange rate at least by half, prices of all goods and services will go up (will double), and imports become harder to afford as it now takes at least twice as much money to but the same imported goods.\n\n   Why is this not the case for the USA (and the Eurozone)? It is sometimes and to an extent (for the above reasons), but:\n when much of the extra money that is added into circulation does not get spent and then spent again by the person who received it, and again ..., instead the money is stockpiled somewhere (by a person, a company or a government), then the above affect does not take place until the stockpiled money is spent again. \n\nAnd if the total amount of money in the world being stockpiled (most large stockpiles are in dollars and euros as there are used for international trade and to keep other currencies stable) goes up, so (to conclude in the correct jargon) non-inflationary increases in money supply are possible.
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It's not just paper and ink.  It has value because it is secured by the strength, reliability and stability of the US Gov't.  When you exchange money for something valuable (like food or beer), the merchant accepts the "paper and ink" because he has faith the the US Gov't will honor that currency when he goes to buy something useful with it.\n\nSimply printing more currency without proper federal accounting will cause an increase in supply, which would devalue that money proportionally.
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Its legal tender, theres no way a shop can refuse to take it, as it bears the queens head. They have given you a price for the item, so long as the currency isn't fake, you can pay how you like. If they did refuse, you could probably report them to trading standards or something similar, certainly, you should take your business elsewhere.
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The money is printed and managed by the Fedral Reserve and inflation determines the value of the dollar.
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Article I of the US Constitution gives Congress the power "To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures."\n\nThey oversee the treasury and decide how much money to print with the assistance of the US Treasury Department.  This is done based upon economic forecasts, the value of the dollar verses other currencies and the need for the money.  They may want to print more money to create inflation (which lowers unemployment) or limit the money to create savings.\n\nThey also print money to compensate for the money that is being constantly taken out of circulation (you trade in a ripped dollar at a bank and they destroy it and print a new one to replace it).\n\nThe Federal Bank handle fiscal policy (such as interest rates and borrowing guidelines), not monetary policy (how much to actually spend).
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they set interest rates and control money supply. This is to keep inflation under control. They control money supply by selling and buying bonds, setting interest rates, they just change numbers...