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The effectiveness of the pens may be affected by external methods. Simply having a banknote pass through laundry, depending on the soaps and bleaches used, can cause a bill to fail the test when it is otherwise accepted. Additionally, it was discovered that treating a counterfeit note with a dilute
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inspector and asked whether the pen works as advertised, to which the inspector replied "it is not dependable." The Secret
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Critics suggest the effectiveness is much lower. Critics claim that professional counterfeiters use starch-free paper, making the pen unable to detect the majority of counterfeit money in circulation. Magician and skeptic
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in an attempt to determine their authenticity. The ink reacts with starch in wood-based paper to create a black or blue mark but the paper in a real bill contains no starch, so the pen mark remains unchanged.
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Pen manufacturers claim such pens will detect a great majority of counterfeit bills and are an easy counterfeit detection method that does not require expensive gadgets.
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has written about the ineffectiveness of counterfeit pens on numerous occasions and uses a pen as an example during his lectures. Randi claims to have contacted a
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will cause a false negative: that is, it will respond to the iodine-based ink as though it were made of the same paper as a valid banknote.
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have made this method easier to detect. This is one reason that many currencies use different sized notes for different denominations.
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112:changes to the currency since 2004
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755:Penmanship
738:Pen Museum
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547:dry erase
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125:vitamin C
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131:See also
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517:Digital
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241:Bibcode
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818:Pencil
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