Counterfeit money

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

A some-years-back Jack Reacher novel had a pretty ingenious counterfeit scheme for older bills without the anticounterfeiting of newer ones: thoroughly bleach worn singles, fives, and tens and reprinting these as old-type hundreds.

Bleaching bills is older than I am because of the difficulty in getting the right paper. Most were reprinted as $20 because that was the largest bill most people carried and spent without suspicion.
China has the technology and resources to make any denomination and as much as they want, but I doubt they want to destabilize US currency... yet.