If you are one of those who have not yet switched to the latest payment methods, you certainly know some precautions to know if a euro bill is really fake or not. Now, the Bank of Spain wanted to give some advice to quickly verify the truth of this exchange. In the event that you see any type of foreign document, immediately ask them to give you another one, so that it has a certain legal validity.
So the Bank of Spain has developed some best practices to be understood by everyone. In this case, he called these simple precautions so that if the bill is lying ‘touch, look, turn’ mode. A small technique to quickly check in just 3 steps if we are dealing with real banknotes or if it is simulated.
If you want to avoid all these steps to get the real money you have, it is best that you turn to modern payment methods. As, for example, payment via Biz, bank card, mobile phones or smart watches. However, if you are one of those who is a faithful follower of tradition, it is best to learn these steps to avoid scams.
In this way, the Bank of Spain advises to check if the euro bill is false
And it happened that the Euro banknotes manufactured by the Bank of Spain are full of details that we need to know to quickly detect if the banknote is false. And it’s that you don’t need to have any special technique to do it, just follow 3 simple steps that don’t cost us any time.
Touch and move the note
One of the most important things to do is to check the authenticity of Europeans touching them. According to the Bank of Spain, the banknotes are made from one side of the cotton fiber, so that the well-known sound of the marked movement is observed, it is very different from paper or cardboard. Moreover, that which is sufficiently characteristic to be detected by the relief of the elements on the reverse.
Put it in the light of the window
It will be seen on many occasions, when you go to the grocery store to buy, that the people who collect the products put the bill in a horizontal position looking for a candle. This is because the trace is visible in both positions. You can see the dark line which is the security wire. In the first series of stamps we see the main image, and in the second series the image of a mythological European queen.
Read the microtext with a magnifying glass
According to the Bank of Spain, another security element that we are going to find is very characteristic of the microtext of the euro banknotes. Thus, in some areas of the bill, they show a series of small characters that can be read with the help of a magnifying glass.
