Scotsman: Japan finds misprints in high-tech yen bills
Japan's high-tech money-printing bureau was left humbled on Tuesday when 39,500 bills were found to be misprinted, an error that caused vending machines across the country to reject them. The 1,000-yen bills, redesigned along with other denominations in 2004 with sophisticated security features to fight counterfeiting, had been printed with a fault unrecognisable to the eye but detectable by some machines, the Bank of Japan said. The central bank said the bills were valid but could be exchanged for new ones at its main branch...more...
