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Summary: Useful to authenticate foreign currency
Review: The MRI Banker's Guide to Foreign Currency is the bible for foreign currency tellers, especially those dealing with exotic currencies. The most striking feature is the full color printing on glossy paper making for an unusually high image quality. The downside is that only the main side is pictured. Nevertheless, currency hustlers around the world don't stand a chance against anyone armed with this guide.2000 photos of currency from 150 countries clearly indicate all currencies in use as well as devalued, worthless, outmoded but redeemable notes, and issues with approaching expiration dates. There are lists of serial numbers of stolen currencies. There are warnings such as this one: "Notes issued by the Central Bank of Mali are worthless". There is a section showing travelers checks issued in 18 currencies. Personally I think it would be foolish to try to authenticate currency you haven't seen before without the benefit of this Guide. The Guide will also be of interest to banknote dealers and collectors, who will inevitably want to compare it to the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money published by Krause Publications. Krause has three times the number of pages, three times the number of photos, shows BOTH sides of the banknotes listed, shows numismatic (or collector) values, and is generally wider in scope. However, for the collector who can afford both, the Guide provides high quality color images of the world's currency which is rivaled only by the real thing.
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