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[Adam G.]

[Flame Set] #38 - Heist

[perfecto2002]

Hi just solved this one answers are:

[Rand0m]

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[JayJay]

Right a few observations about this card.

1. The numbers in the boxes use a strange font that makes them appear aged! Why?

2. Currancy number 3s pic has some keyboard keys in it! > ? .(bottom right of a standard keyboard) Surely the money coudn't have fallan onto a keyboard after the heist. Again why?

Right off to seek more observations /strange findings in other cards

[cecilbdemented]

I think that it has something to do with counterfitting. If there's some random keystrokes on one of the bills, my guess would be that we have to find the one that doesn't fit (the one real or the one counterfit). The 500 Yen piece intrigued me as, for a bill covered in Kanji/Hiragana, why was the serial number in Roman letters? However, when I went to find a referrence picture of a 500 Yen bill on the internet (sory, I didn't have any lying around), I found something intriguing: recently printed Japanese currency has serial numbers of two letters, six digits, and a final letter. This would be enough to make the bill a counterfit, but I did manage to find some scans of older currency, that has a single letter preceding the digits, so that was a false lead on my part. [Viz:]

However, based on my research, I found that the bill would have to be the 500 yen bill from "Series C" of Japan's printed currency, and was issued November 1, 1969 (Showa 44), and was suspended April 1, 1994 (Heisei 6). Hypotheticaly, if someone here could read that bill and find the date to be outside the aforementioned timeframe, that would make it a counterfit (Official Japanese documents/records give the year in the Japanese Era name, so it would have to say Showa 44-64, or Heisei 1-6 for it to be real). Also of note, after its suspension in Heisei 6, the governement of Japan has not issued another 500 yen piece. I'll try to look into the other bills as well.[/img]