Counterfeit money! Bank of Finland Museum’s special exhibition

18.6.2019 10:37:00 EEST | Suomen Pankki | Press release

“Feel, look, tilt”. With these wellknown instructions, you can distinguish between genuine and counterfeit euro banknotes. Counterfeiting banknotes is an old and widespread crime. Harsh penalties and banknote security features have been employed in an effort to prevent counterfeiting. In this exhibition, we tell the history of Finnish banknote counterfeits and the measures taken to combat counterfeiting during the euro period.

You can also help in tracking counterfeits!

Tuomas Välimäki, Member of the Board, will open the exhibition on Tuesday 18 June at 16.00 hours. After the opening address at 17.00 hours, Jussi Kangas, Head of Cash, and Olli Vehmas, Banknote Specialist, will give a talk on the prevention of counterfeiting.

The exhibition runs from 18 June 2019 to 31 May 2019.

The Bank of Finland Museum is located at Snellmaninkatu 2 in the Kruununhaka district of central Helsinki. Admission to the museum is free of charge.

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Contacts

Head of Museum, Mr Jaakko Koskentola, tel. +358 9 183 2607

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The Bank of Finland is the national monetary authority and central bank of Finland. At the same time, it is also a part of the Eurosystem, which is responsible for monetary policy and other central bank tasks in the euro area and administers use of the world’s second largest currency – the euro.

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