My favorite part about this channel is seeing what kinda crazy stock footage can make the cut. Like someone shot that footage of a monkey next to a pile of cash and thought “yeah… someone will pay for that” and then someone did

Fun fact: in Hong Kong, they still allow certain banks, such as HSBC and Standard Chartered, to print their own banknotes.

Bro, that plan by Germany was actually kinda solid. I had never thought that the most effective kind of bombs would be stacks of 100$ bills

The thing about the SuperDollar is, it's still viable, because not everyone has the latest bills, and there's no mandate to exchange them, besides banks. So they can still use all the mass produced ones stealthily.

Why did they need to counterfeit when they could’ve emailed Raid: Shadow Legends for Sponsors?

2:17 “On denominations higher than the $1 bill” 2:30 “All bills five or above…” $2 bill: Am I a joke to you?

I used to be a bank teller (probably 2012-2013) and we did a lot of cash transactions at my branch. One day I got a deposit of a few thousand dollars from a local bar including lots of hundreds. I ran the stack through the counting machine (which had a counterfeit detection feature) and everything checked out. After I processed the transaction and was handling the money to place into my till... one of the $100s "didn't feel right." The new blue Benjamins had just been released but this bill was of the old type. I ran it through the machine again, clear. I marked it with the detector pen, clear. Showed it to my manager... who said, well, if it passed the checks then it should be ok. Thing was, it had this kind of waxy coating on it which I suspected was fooling the ink test. So I put a small tear in a corner, tested with the pen again, and sure enough it was a fake. I'm convinced it was one of these NK masterpieces. So we sent it to the secret service and that was the last I heard about it.

So thanks to the vending machine lobby, the $1 is the easiest bill to counterfeit, and thanks to the vending machine in the lobby, the $1 bill is the most useful bill to counterfeit. Neat!

No… this can’t be…. An HAI video without a sponsor at the beginning? This is impossible, this must be a facade! They must’ve been hacked! Sam are you okay??? Have you been captured?

People, before you start commenting about no sponsor, *there is literally a hello fresh link in the description*

this is exactly why the restaurant I work with doesn't accept any of the old $100 bills at all..

The counterfeiting problem was so bad in the 1860's that the Secret Service was created to deal with it.

*starts furiously taking notes* no, no, this is just a science project

Why make a fake dollar bill when you can just pump out another half as interesting episode while holding Wendover Sam hostage.

I haven't watched the full video but I'd like to point out something. In my area there was just a massive bust over fake 10 dollar bills. They had proper ink color and correct kind of fiber feel that's all. None of the special security features. It's estimated that over 100k of fake 10 bills were being circulated. All because Noone not even I who accepted several of them at my gas station takes the time to check a 10 more than make sure it feels right and looks right. If you counterfeit a 10. Noone besides a bank will take the time to tell the difference. I check 50s and 100s. And I check 20s if they are an old looking denomination or are too crisp. But who thinks to check 10 dollar bills under the light

My late uncle was an ambassador for my country in North Korea around the time this superdollars was out. I still remember he told me that during that time he doesn't accept USD in any transactions and prefers to use GBP or EURO instead (I don't remember which one) because he said there's lots of fake usd in circulation. And I happy that you covered this because the 12 years old me before wondered how can there be so many fake money in circulation to the point even government officials don't want to accept it

I’m going to use my superdollars to not buy hello fresh but instead pay to win Raid Shadow Legends.

The super bills were indeed quite good but, for those in the know, were in fact distinguishable. The paper even though very good was also distinguishable. The paper used for US currency is basically 18th century writing paper with a few enhancements (e.g. the red and blue fibers).

Hello Fresh is extremely expensive. The same products at the grocery store are less than 1/3 the cost and you don't have to wait for the food nor get extremely small portions.

if we have perfect superdollars than we wouldn't know that we had perfect superdollars

This is the best video about bricks uploaded

"The United States of HAI" 😂

"The process is somewhat costly" Denomination Printing Costs $20 11.2 cents per note $50 11.0 cents per note $100 14.0 cents per note stonks

hai: “here are some of the mistakes north korea made in their superdollars” the labor camp supervisor: write that down, write that down! some poor guy who doesn’t want 3 generations of his family executed:🥲✍🏼

hello fresh: you know... until now I actually believed that "I've been using them long before they became a sponsor, and I have the recipe collection to prove it!"... until I've heard it now from you, third separate content creator.

Last time I was this early the ruthless dictator was being removed by another ruthless dictator which removed the previous ruthless dictator

I absolutely adore Scottish money, still to this day Scottish banks produce their own notes, including the lowest sterling denomination banknote, the RBS £1 note

The fact that the Orange 10 and the Yellow on the 50 are so close in color and so close in position consistently boggles my mind. I've been thinking about this for 15 years. Washing 10s in to 50s seems entirely too easy to slip by an inattentive cashier.

"Try them out" I thought he was talking about counterfeits

North Korea = The direct-to-DVD spin-off sequel to the Soviet Union

One of the most common ways we'd see counterfeits at the retail level was the bleaching of 1's or 5's and printing 20's or 100's on them. That way they had the right "paper" but the watermark was wrong. The thing is during busy times, cashiers can't take the time (or forget) to check all the bills that go thru their hands. The holiday shopping season was the best time for counterfeiters.

I would think the fact it's only worth $1 would be enough of a deterrent to keep people from counterfeiting the $1 bill. After all the expense involved in the printing operation, why bother? I'm with the vending machine lobby on this one.

I kinda thought this said how north korea made the perfect country.

Thank you Sam for making enjoyable content, u the GOAT at making semi-educational and satirical KZfaq videos

when i was young I once had a 50 dollar bill that did not have "In God we Trust" on it. No merchant would take it, everyone kept saying it was counterfeit. i took it to the bank and the banker confirmed that it was real and that they were printed without the "In god we trust" before 1950, and advised me to keep it. But being a young person, i just wanted to spend it and i was angry that the merchants tried to make it look like i was doing something illegal. so i exchanged it for 10s.

What's important about all those bank notes is not that they said "two dollars" on them, but that 2 ounces of silver were on deposit and redeemable at the bank who issued the note. Under that system, counterfeiting - official or not - was considered fraud. Today, it's considered quantitative easing.

(Worker accidentally puts a typo on a counterfeit dollar bill) "You misspelled Washington as WAHSINGTON! You go to labor camp!"

The secret of your future is hidden in your day routine . Successful people do daily what unsuccessful people do occasionally

Investing is buying yourself a better future you don't have to work hard.

“You should really try them out” instructions unclear, now in prison for counterfeiting

Seems like Hello Fresh is sponsoring everyone these days.

Caspian Report already made a video about this. Good complement

Well, the HK flag in 1990 was different to the one that you showed, since it was still under the British

I own a very old bank building that used to print their own money in the basement. I have a few of the old bills, and yes, they very much look like monopoly money!

Sam admitted to being rich enough to constantly eat take out

I won’t be surprised if we have headlines “North Korea creates hyperinflation around the world US declared war and the world will soon be destroyed in nuclear war”

I saw someone where I worked show up and buy fast food with an old hundred like these. Noticed his wallet had more near identical hundreds in it. In fact, only hundreds. I asked the manager to do a thorough examination of the hundred. They did. It seemed legit. I told them about the sketchy situation. At the end of the day, the safe would not count that hundred at all. It simply didn't think it was money. Good to know that the Workers Party of Korea will be making excellent use of our company's money. Lord knows the franchise owner or execs don't need it.

In Scotland we still have different banks printing money

"In any other circumstance you should try them out!" Okay, I'll use my countertfeit $100s if you say so... /jk. To be clear. Cia don't come for me I don't actually have any 😂

The one dollar bill has changed since 1929. It 1957 US currency got the "In God We Trust" line added.

Many countries have moved onto polymer bills , which have many security features. Also getting rid of the dollar bill and replacing it with a dollar coin would save many millions of dollars. Coins can be in circulation for 50 years, paper currency only lasts 3 - 5 years.

That the paper is made from fibers that are more commonly used in textiles does not make it "not paper". Before we started making paper form wood fibers, ALL paper was made of rags. It's not a fabric,it's still a chaotic assembly of fibers, just as any old paper. It does have a special feel though.

This sequel to the brick video is interesting. It would be interesting to see how brick is acquired in other parts of the world

Sam 5:20 : "However, in any other circumstance, you should really try them out" Me: *thinking he means superdollars*

Excellent writing.

I love the fact that you put the advice at the END

Last time I was this early, the Koreas were still united.

Back in my Emerald Triangle days- I knew someone who got 50k in NK NOTES, from a dispensary. It would click the money counter, held to the light had watermarks, even the famous strip on the bill- which could not be pulled out. The fact the serial numbers were only three numbers gave it away... Being able to pull the strip is the only way to tell- the fake hundreds click a counter, but that strip can't be pulled as it's printed and not embedded. He had a party and burned it- twenty pounds of Humboldt lost to a dispensary that gave out fake cash.

I love learning about these kinds of brick!!!

The money in the movie True Grit (2010) made US currency pre-1861 part of the plot. The girl in the movie gave Jeff Bridges character money from a bank and he was worried as to whether it was any good due to the bank possible being insolvent.

Hands down, you guys are my favourite channel about making bricks. No one else even compares in the game.

0:14 : Our currency isn't issued by the United States Federal government. Currency is issued by The Federal Reserve Bank - a private bank. Please include the correction in your annual video of corrections.

Back in 2008-2010 my area was flooded with fake $10 bills. Smaller bills aren’t checked like a $50

The pre-2013 $100 banknotes are still valid. Why would then North Korea operation suddenly come to a halt? ...they might have increasing difficulties to use these older banknotes in large quantities, but for moderate amounts and especially in third countries it could still be profitable.

2 things...I think we need a video about Room 39, and just wondering why making a new 100 dollar bill made the "superdollars" not a thing, we still use older bills lol.

Those new super dollars are probably so perfect that they don’t even know it’s counterfeit

Nothing like sweeping that whole "Gold & Silver" problem under rug and creating a more damaging one

That is why a lot of places will not take US $100s from 1996 or earlier. Because of the counterfeits. When I went to China in the early 2000s, they would not exchange any bills from 1996 or earlier.

Nobody’s gonna mention that weird-ass Monopoly board?

Before it was redesigned with the bigger off center oval portrait, counterfeit $100 bills were reportedly produced in Iran. Room 39 in North Korea is said to be next to a place where counterfeit Viagra, more potent than the genuine item, was produced.

Something I read in a novel ... ----------------- US bills are all the same size, no matter the value. Apparently this is quite rare, with most currencies having different sized notes for each note value eg. £5, £10, £20 all get bigger in size, same with Euros. In theory, the US bills could be counterfeited by washing the cotton/fibre material that the bills are printed on and reprinting them with higher denominations - for example, washing a $1 bill and reprinting it to value it at $100. ---------------------- As I said, read it in a novel, so probably bollox, but it does seem strange that US dollar bills are all the same size

In Northern Ireland the banks still issue their own notes so there are 4 forms of each denomination, Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank, Danske Bank and First Trust bank

5:28 "have hundreds of recipe pages to prove it" *Shows one recipe page*

HAI has hit some hard times, no sponser today EDIT: Wait theres just no intro? bruh

1:30 Costly? Cost money to make money Make so much sense

Mexican $500 bill security features: _I AM FOUR PARALLEL UNIVERSES AHEAD OF YOU_

Actually, the current $1 note hasn't changed substantially since the introduction of Series 1963, which was the introduction of Federal Reserve Notes in this denomination which incorporated an asymmetrical border design. The previous version (the Silver Certificates, which included Series 1928, 1934, 1935 and 1957) had a different border design on the front, and the current design of the back started with Series 1935. (The 1928 and 1934 series had sort of a "funny money" back, just as the $500, $1000, $5000 and $10,000 bills had). Only the $2 bill still has the same border design on the front that it had on the Series 1928 United States Notes. The design on the back, of course, was changed in 1976 with the introduction of the Bicentennial Federal Reserve Notes on which Monticello was replaced by the Signing of the Declaration of Independence. The $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 denominations kept the same front border designs from 1928 until the "big-headed" versions came out around the turn of the century (different years for different denominations) for added security. The backs of the old notes remained the same except for slight modifications of the White House on the back of the $20. The $500, $1000, $5000 and $10,000 denominations kept essentially the same front and back designs throughout the 1928 and 1934 series, and were discontinued afterward. The $100,000 Gold Certificate had an orange "funny money" back, but this denomination (printed only for 1934) was never released for public use, but rather used only for intrabank transfers. The motto "In God We Trust" was added to all the $1 through $100 denominations starting about 1957.

You forgot to mention another security feature that on all the bills the jackets of the presidents have raised inking.

Advertiser in video, I spend 5 minutes at most (3 mihnutes) doing microwave, 15 minutes with my Tyson Grill. I don't have a half hour to cook and bake. I budget 150USD per week for meals. OR Less.

Very nicely done

The euro has way more security features than dollars. Even the 0 euro note has security features. Us dollar feel like monopoly money compared to the iconic feel of a euro note

I bookmarked this the day it came out and didn't watch it until now. And I'm holding a bottle of Mountain Dew Baja Blast at this moment. Obviously this was cosmically ordained destiny.

Great and witty writing. That invisible security thread is imbedded in a visible strip.

That ad was smooth af

I was once handed a very convincing counterfeit $50 bill with a watermark of Lincoln instead of Grant. I worked in fastfood for two years and handled a lot of cash, including a couple amateur counterfeits. That $50 bill was not the work of an amateur, and I wouldn't have caught it if I wasn't already in the habit of checking the watermarks.

3:26 That's illegal! You're talking 'bout 1990, when Hong Kong was still a British colony. Why use the HKSAR flag for things before '97?

in the uk we have tons of pound note designs from different banks

Most of our money comes from commercial banks. When you use a credit that, for example, is brand new money that the bank created out of nothing and loan it to you so they could get interest from you.

Narrator: ...And the trickle of superdollars from rm 39 has come to a fault... Kim Jong Un: or has it?

When you realize 5 dollars in 1860 is worth almost 200 dollars today

Intaglio is mainly for raised ink… not micro printing… micro printing can be done with an offset as well as intaglio

When he said 'You should really try it out!' I thought he was referring to my counterfeit notes...

Fun fact: in canada, they allow Canadian tire to print their own banknotes

Why did they stop printing though? Old series bills are still valid. Like yeah, if you have a huge stack of them, sure it's suspicious, but if it actually passes all the teller checks, it doesn't matter if its suspicious.

This guy sure does make good use of his stock footage subscription.

Also a fun fact, the reason US dollars are green is because of the fact that the very specific green ink made for the dollar was very hard to replicate. Way back in the 1860’s. Before then you could literally get a camera and just photograph the bills and get good enough results. But because they used color, and a specific specialty recipe ink color, it helped to make dollars harder to counterfeit.

Watched this saying how impossible it is to counterfeit money after watching a video of a guy (was caught) who made the most believable counterfeit money that would fool the people who worked in banks until they ran it in a machine. The agents were impressed when he showed them how he did it. Which led to other videos of other counterfeiters who fooled people and banks without mass amounts of money behind them. They all figured ways around the “high tech” things on the bills to make them seem more real.

Half as Interesting without a sponsor intro is just Half.

in Hong Kong to this day 4 different parties issue banknotes: the HSBC, Standard Chartered, Bank of China and the Government of Hong Kong. Each banknote has a different design, but they are all regulated by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority

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