This was my first thought.

I don't know whether it would be filed under baseless and unwarranted today. Still, to myself, something seems inherently wrong with outsourcing minting of coins and bills. I would've expected Thailand as a nation steeped in it's own heritage and still a monarchy to this day might find resources to employ and innovate locally.



These are similar to the scenarios in my mind.



Bitman

I just searched for "war" and didn't found a mention so I thought this wasn't mentioned yet in the post.

Money counterfeiting by governments can also be a strategy during wartime:

Operation Bernhard was an exercise by Nazi Germany to forge British bank notes. The initial plan was to drop the notes over Britain to bring about a collapse of the British economy during the Second World War.

If North Korea really was behind the superdollars, it certainly wouldn’t be the first time a world power has used forged currency to damage an opponent. In fact, for more than 200 years, counterfeiting has been a part of the wartime strategies of a number of countries. According to one source, during the Seven Years War both the Austrian and Russian armies dispersed bogus Polish money while on campaign as a means to further weaken the enemy. It was a strategy revived by Napoleon when he wanted to undermine the economies of Austria, Russia and Great Britain.

econ

 Government owned printer has official license to print other nations' fiat

_Disclaimer: Didn't read the full post.
I just searched for "war" and didn't found a mention so I thought this wasn't mentioned yet in the post._

Money counterfeiting by governments can also be a strategy during wartime:

> Operation Bernhard was an exercise by Nazi Germany to forge British bank notes. The initial plan was to drop the notes over Britain to bring about a collapse of the British economy during the Second World War.

-- [Wikipedia article about Operation Bernhard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bernhard)

> If North Korea really was behind the superdollars, it certainly wouldn’t be the first time a world power has used forged currency to damage an opponent. In fact, for more than 200 years, counterfeiting has been a part of the wartime strategies of a number of countries. According to one source, during the Seven Years War both the Austrian and Russian armies dispersed bogus Polish money while on campaign as a means to further weaken the enemy. It was a strategy revived by Napoleon when he wanted to undermine the economies of Austria, Russia and Great Britain.

-- [militaryhistorynow.com, 2021](https://militaryhistorynow.com/2021/10/18/funny-money-the-amazing-history-of-wartime-counterfeiting-2-2/)
