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Common targets for forgers include:

Common targets for forgers include:

*Currency

*[[Currency]]

*Artwork

*[[Artwork]]

*Birth certificates

*[[Birth certificate]]s

*Driver's licenses (typically to enable underage drinking)

*[[Driver's license]]s (typically to enable [[underage drinking]])

*Lottery tickets (occasionally)

*[[Lottery]] tickets (occasionally)

Many experts and systems are in place to reduce losses due to forgery.  Usually if the forgery is of something that should be old (like a [[painting]]), experts can examine the materials used to determine if they date from the correct era.  Systems in familiar use are the complex ways that paper [[money]] is designed to be difficult to reproduce, and the special markers [[retail]] clerks can use to determine the genuineness of higher denomination bills when presented.

Many experts and systems are in place to reduce losses due to forgery.  Usually if the forgery is of something that should be old (like a [[painting]]), experts can examine the materials used to determine if they date from the correct era.  Systems in familiar use are the complex ways that paper [[money]] is designed to be difficult to [[counterfeit]], and the special markers [[retail]] clerks can use to determine the genuineness of higher denomination bills when presented.

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