From eb at srlr14.sr.hp.com  Fri Jul 30 12:52:57 1993
From: eb at srlr14.sr.hp.com (Eric Blossom)
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 93 12:52:57 PDT
Subject: Tracing Cash
In-Reply-To: <m0oLzjT-0009ExC@mindvox.phantom.com>
Message-ID: <9307301948.AA00433@srlr14.sr.hp.com>



> BTW, cash can be traced even without bar codes, since serial numbers can
> be read by OCR.  

The few $50 and $100 bills I've looked at over the past year or so
have had a light colored vertical stripe on them that was slightly raised
above the surface of the paper and had *small* numbers on it.  

Seems like it was designed to make counterfeiting harder and money
easier to trace.