Police handout of a counterfeit $100 note plate from Rydalmere. THESE templates seized from a Sydney home are priceless - giving criminals the means to print money. The templates, used to make counterfeit $100 notes, were found at a home in Rydalmere after police from Operation Spartan responded to a domestic argument involving a Comanchero bikie. The detailed templates had several different faces to copy the two different sides of the $100 note. The highly unusual discovery is prized by police after a recent spike in high-quality counterfeit notes found in Sydney. It follows the seizure of $520,000 in counterfeit $100 notes last November in Greenfield Park. A Comanchero bikie was charged. No one has been charged in relation to the plates and there is no suggestion the two incidents are related. For years Australian polymer notes were considered virtually counterfeit proof, with the Reserve Bank saying we had one of the lowest counterfeiting rates in the world. While there is little official talk of counterfeit money, criminal gangs over the years have frequently made counterfeit money as "show money" for drug deals. They have the dodgy money there to show they have the finances for the deal. Often they would put some real money on the top with the rest counterfeit," a detective said. Who are you going to report the rip-off to on a sour drug deal? He said those were normally poor in quality, but what had been seen in recent years was of significantly better quality. The recent notes in Sydney were covered in a resin to give them a plastic feel. The Reserve Bank said they had not seen any significant increase in counterfeits - either in number or quality. "Last year $400,000 in counterfeits were detected which is a minuscule percentage of the number of notes in circulation," they said. We have not seen a trend which indicates a significant increase in counterfeiting. The bank does not release details on the number of counterfeits seized. During the raid which netted the plates, police from Strike Force Spartan, together with detectives from Rosehill, found a silver handgun, a crossbow, two spearguns, a throwing knife, pills and drug paraphernalia including resealable bags, scales, mobile phones, laptops and ledgers. Operation Spartan was established to disrupt crime in southwest Sydney.