Money Matters: Real Fake: The Mysterious and Ever-Changing World of Counterfeiting
Date and Time
April 23, 2012
Location
Event Details
Go behind the scenes with professional museum educator and collector extraordinaire Harley Spiller to explore how and why people trust the Almighty Dollar. Use a magnet detector, an ultra-violet light, and other anti-counterfeiting devices to determine what’s real and what’s real fake. Spiller explores the mysterious active ingredient in counterfeit-detecting pens and shares little-known secrets behind U.S. currency. Still, he doesn’t know all the tricks so come prepared to handle actual counterfeits and sharpen your skills of intuition and detection.
Harley Spiller, Senior Educator for The Museum of American Finance, a Smithsonian affiliate, shares his knowledge of the history of paper money in the United States of America.
- Audience: Adults
Support
The New York Public Library's Money Matters series is made possible thanks to the generous support of The McGraw-Hill Companies' Financial Literacy Now: New York campaign