On: How to Make Convincing Fake-Gold Bars

[mhb]

I wish I could remember where I read about it, but a common technique is to wash the ink off real bills to obtain the genuine blank paper.

[marvin → mhb]

Yeah, but that technique is obsolete now. Most modern currencies print notes on paper of different sizes. I seem to recall that it was used to create US dollar bills of a higher denomination.

[mhb → marvin]

US bills are still the same size.