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| Security features used in the L.E. 20 banknotes |
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| The "correspondence element", which is an ornamented shape on the front that is complementary with another shape on the back. Thus when the one looks at the note through direct penetrating light, he can see a pharaoh eye (Horas Eye). Such complementary shape does not appear in the counterfeit banknote when looking through the same light. |
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| Second: |
| The "watermark" envisaging the picture of Tut A’nkh Amoun’s mask. This watermark appears only when looking at the banknote through the direct penetrating light. In the counterfeit banknote it does not appear or appears as a superficial print on the paper surface regardless its exposure to the direct penetrating light. |
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| Third: |
| The "shining apparently-disconnected tape" which appears connected in the direct penetrating light and reflects spectral colors in the shape of Zoser Pyramid when twisted. This tape does not appear connected in the counterfeit banknote and does not reflect the pyramid shape when twisted. |
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| Fourth: |
| The "security magnetic fiber" identified by the counting machines at banks; on the fiber the number 20 is printed, while on the counterfeit banknote this fiber does not exist, and if it exists the number 20 would not be printed, moreover, it would not be magnetized. |
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| Fifth: |
| The printing is done using a type of ink the color of which changes when the banknote is twisted, while in the counterfeit banknote there is no change in the color and it only shows one color. |
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