Just an old $100 bill, before the security thread and re-design (with different fonts). I highly doubt it's fake, just the young teller at the bank hasn't seen them. Like a $2 bill...

@spacejaga

3 жыл бұрын

I was about to shit on your comment, but then I did some research and turns out you are right :D I couldn't believe 1990 was first year they introduced the thread in 100$ bill.... And since the one in the video is 1981 series - it's absolutely possible clerk at the bank might be wrong.....

@phantomphreak241

3 жыл бұрын

Thats what i was thinking just looks older from the 90s or so

@misfortune5007

3 жыл бұрын

Had the same happen to me with a 10 euro note. It had all the makings except the uv one. It even had the shadow marking in between the layers. They print bilions of notes at a time, errors could and will happen regardless of the industry.

@marcushunt63

3 жыл бұрын

Yep just old

@drmalenko

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed, its just old, its not fake.

Bring it back to the bank. I have a 1981 100 dollar bill that I have collected over the years. There is no stripe embedded into that year of bill. In 1990 they added the security stripe and micro printing.

@BerserkJeffy

3 жыл бұрын

I'm no expert but it doesn't look fake to me either. If they're getting rid of old bills it should be at the bank, not refusing to accept old bills because they're still in circulation. Since they didn't do police investigation see if they can tell you why it's fake.

@hxhdfjifzirstc894

3 жыл бұрын

If it's real, his bill has collector value higher than $100. It would be stupid to deposit it in the bank.

@Melanie16040

3 жыл бұрын

@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 Yes it's real, no it doesn't have collector value.

@user-bt2lx4gy7h

3 жыл бұрын

@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 It really depends on the condition, but it's still likely over 100 of even a little bit. Definitely worth looking into for funsies

@kramermccabe8601

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-bt2lx4gy7h if it was worth anything, him scribbling on the bill ruined it

It's possible the person who paid with it thought it was real too.

@fvrrljr

3 жыл бұрын

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@7ossamelsayed346

3 жыл бұрын

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@GainingDespair

3 жыл бұрын

Frequently the case, most counterfeiters don't try to spend it themselves, you get the money in weird ways like flea-markets, person to person purchases, or occasionally just found on the ground, you would be surprised how many excuses you get, most people end up embarrassed about it, and gladly wait for the police to show up to add context to the report, it's normally the ones who know who leave right away. Worked at a McDonalds, Wendys, and a Dollar General as a teen while not super common you will run into it once every 3-4 months

@fillmainlol5973

3 жыл бұрын

that’s most often the case

@ahmedhamdan2009

3 жыл бұрын

@@GainingDespair I once fell victim to a fake $50 bill. I'm from Australia

I think it's worth mentioning that they didn't have security strips until 1990. That bill is marked "1981." The banks will return them and machines won't accept them unless you make a stink about it. It's probably real, they just don't know how to validate it.

@hxhdfjifzirstc894

3 жыл бұрын

Old money in perfect condition like this is worth more than face value. It would be stupid to deposit it, instead of keeping it or selling it.

@heyhoe168

3 жыл бұрын

@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 old paper money in the perfect condition? Definitely not fake.

There were no lines in bills in 1981. How did the bank allow you to leave with a fake bill and not confiscate it?

@vrstate

3 жыл бұрын

Probably he just try to deposit and the bank ATM would not read it, at least that's what happens with fake cash in brazil

@vrstate

3 жыл бұрын

@@andyk192 sometimes it doesn't confiscate it just thinks is dirty or something and asks to put it back again

It is a 1981 series $100 bill in very good condition. It is probably worth more than $100 to collectors. US currency even back then has red and blue fibers embedded in it, which are easy to see under the microscope. Those pens are nothing but an Iodine solution that turns blue/black in the presence of starch which exists in most paper, but not in currency.

I've been giving back old notes before at the bank saying there counterfeit... I made a fuss and even bank manager wasn't sure ... It turned out to be real... Old notes don't have many security features just the cotton cloth paper mix.

@hxhdfjifzirstc894

3 жыл бұрын

From what I could see in the video, this bill is clearly real. He didn't show us everything though.

@snowfirebeast

3 жыл бұрын

Its does have a security. There is a water mark of the presidents face that can only be seen when holding it to light. All bills 5 and up have this

@Dtr146

3 жыл бұрын

Older notes are victim to bleaching. The treasury is trying to pull all the older bills off of circulation because people will take $1 bills and bleach them turning them into older style hundreds. There's a security strip even in the 1990 $100 bills. But almost all bills have the ridged collar. You can scratch the collar on almost any bill except for a lot of ones and tell her real because it'll be ridges on the president's collar.

UV light, it’s a real one dollar bill that they remove the ink and printed a 100 bill instead. They used raised embossed ink to raise the ink. I learned a lot in being a scrapbooking department manager. Edit: every bill over 5 has a different color strip when you use UV light. I would suggest to buy a UV light money machine. There like $50 bucks.

@bobr9207

3 жыл бұрын

Or they bought legit paper money in Germany using a fake company as a front so that they could sell them the paper Then specifically printed an earlier version of notes to be able to pass most security tests

@xXxXFALL3NXxXx

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I never trust those older looking bills.

@jasonr9157

3 жыл бұрын

@@xXxXFALL3NXxXx it shouldnt be hard to find out what compounds react to the pen then coating that forgery with the compounds needed, should be childs play to beat a pen in todays world, once those expensive atomic microscopes become mainstream, forgers will be able to print near one to one copies with a plastics printer including the strips ink and watermarks, printer copying on these scales cant be more than 5 years away, if i had money, id still be thinking cryptos biggest days are ahead, end of cash is coming

@ilikethemapples5430

3 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Coelho I agree but in this case they got a good fake $100. Investing $50 to detect the correct color of the UV light of each bill with and every-time reminder for not just the current employee but the new ones to comes is a well spent investment. Otherwise I would tell him to use his UV light but it would be stupid and useless if you have one UV light to share with the counter. Just makes no sense.

@darkbreed

3 жыл бұрын

or it is coated with cyanacrylat vapor, this was done in germany to prevent the markerpentest from working some time ago and the pen is no more a secure way to test bank notes.

I thought you'll apply some flux on the bill to see if it's a real one or not :D

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3 жыл бұрын

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3 жыл бұрын

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3 жыл бұрын

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@sdksrdr

3 жыл бұрын

flux is treatmant for every disease :D

@UnknwnPlyr374

3 жыл бұрын

@@sdksrdr I'm sure it s the best remedy against our current pandemic haha 😄😂

Pretty sure the bank wouldn’t give you back fake money. They typically take it from the person.

@jmugurr994

3 жыл бұрын

Fake money is a felony investigated by the secret service. The bank is required to report that for investigation. They will be the final word of whether it is fake or not.

@jackofallglass165

3 жыл бұрын

not true. i had a bill passed off to me a few years ago. the bank told me it was fake, told me i had to call the secret service "no joke" and gave me the note back

@odinsmojo

Жыл бұрын

With businesses, they give it back.

One of the highest quality fakes I’ve ever seen..

this guy is great he still repaired the device despite the fake money, amazing

The bank said it was fake and gave it back to you? I thought it had to be reported and confiscated for sure. I don't think you can possess that

@hxhdfjifzirstc894

3 жыл бұрын

People who work at banks have no idea what they're talking about.... probably public school education.

@VenoXj1

3 жыл бұрын

@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 Wdym they have no idea? It doesn't matter if they have no idea. If they say that's a fake bill they won't give it back to you.

@VenoXj1

3 жыл бұрын

@@JM-sx9yk Are you sure that's what they'd do? This sounds rather fishy actually. If you'd show them a fake $100 bill and they would call it fake, I highly doubt they would give it back to you.

@mynameisjeff6988

3 жыл бұрын

@@VenoXj1 Because bank tellers are so stupid they can't tell that 100 dollar bills existed 30 years ago. The bill in the video is 100% real. Ive had people tell me my 2 dollar bills were counterfeit.

On real bills if you feel around franklin's shirt it should have texture ..its hard to replicate soo pretty much all fake bills will be flat there

There's no line on those bills. That's only on new money.

@rayanmalik5744

3 жыл бұрын

Any way to differentiate a counterfeit bill that passes the pen test then?

@TermitesRGood1

3 жыл бұрын

security thread and microprinting are introduced in Federal Reserve notes to deter counterfeiting by copiers and printers. The features first appear in Series 1990 $100 notes. By Series 1993, the features appeared on all denominations except $1 and $2 notes.

@hxhdfjifzirstc894

3 жыл бұрын

@@TermitesRGood1 His bill is 1980, if I'm not mistaken. Way before the security strip. I remember when they started to put the security strip in money.

@maximilian200057

3 жыл бұрын

1990: A security thread and microprinting are introduced in Federal Reserve notes to deter counterfeiting by copiers and printers. The features first appear in Series 1990 $100 notes. By Series 1993, the features appeared on all denominations except $1 and $2 notes. www.uscurrency.gov/denominations/100

@RespawnRestricted

3 жыл бұрын

That bill was before the security strip I guess you never seen an old $100 bill in person just to be sure I checked a couple of my old ones none of them have the strip

You can get these UV money scanners that will check if the currency is counterfit using that a long side the pen would be a much safer than just checking it in the light. By the looks of it like a lot of people have mention they have taken a smaller bill then removed the markings then printed the newer higher amount ontop of it without any problems.

@NorthridgeFix you need to double-check the bill (especially using UV light). The thread was added on $100 bills from 1990 and the bill you got there says it's 1981 series. The bank employee might be wrong too you know....

well, not really some 100 dollar bills specially some from 1980s or maybe 1970s do not have that line, since it was introduced at a later time, and the bills are still ok to be used. The year is printed next to the face and says series....

As said by Brad Raedel and Space Jaga, it is old $100 bill but not fake. There was no thread in $100 bills before 1990 and this $100 bill is 1981 series.

I was born with a soldering iron in my hand but you sir are an artist. All the best from Olde London.

Bills before the 1990s I believe didn't have security threads and the older bills the font is different

@Dratchev241

3 жыл бұрын

correct, this is a 81-83 bill.

@xheralt

3 жыл бұрын

I'd wonder a little at a bill that old being in such good shape.

They might be bleaching a smaller denomination bill then printing a higher amount on the paper. That might how the paper fools the pen. The fake notes in the uk are top notch as well, very hard to spot the difference.

@Dratchev241

3 жыл бұрын

real bill from 81-83 Angela Marie Buchanan was tres of the US during that time. its just an old bill

That one of the old bills, doesn't have the blue security strip but does have one that is kinda like a watermark. Probably out of Peru the make some the very best counterfeit bills. The thing line that boarders the edges of the bill are micro printed that fake one you have the words are all blured. Into a line you can't make out the words. Hold it up to the light it should have a water mark if the presidents head. The exterior boarder line is micro printed, the old bills have a line when help up to the light that you can see looks like black letters stating the value of the bill. On the corner where the dollar value is printed it embossed... as a matter if fact the whole bill is embossed. You should be able to feel the printed lines letters , numbers , art work with you finger tips if you close your eyes it will feel similar to a dime. The Ink on the number value in the 4 corners if you look at it at angle itn direct light and rock it back and forth will color shift from green to black. And the are about a half dozen more check that you don't need specialised equipment/ to check. If you want to see a good example of what the micro printing should look like take you social security card and look at the line where you signed it with a magnifying glass. The micro printing will look like that.

Saw the date 1981. That’s an older bill. There is a good chance it’s real. They didn’t have those features on them back then. But it would be rare to find one that’s not wrinkled folded or worn. It’s possible if it was stored new. But who knows

i thought that the Secret service handled counterfeit bills? They should be able to disclose if it's a real or fake note!

@webserververse5749

3 жыл бұрын

Is FBI not Secret Services

I had the same problem, the problem was connector was dirty. I know you must have tested that but for anyone reading this having that problem, they probably should check that first! Great video as always and better than factory!

There are little red and blue fibers embedded in the bill that are only a few mils long. With a real bill these fibers can be removed with tweezers. Fakes will appear to have these fibers but they are just printed on. I worked at a bank in Detroit and came across lots of counterfeit money.

Been a while since i seen a bill like that but they are still in circulation along with the old 5s, 10s, 20s, and 50s. Many people sit on them to save for the future and there have been articles of people finding old money in homes of people that has passed or were abandoned and being its money you can still use it or you can take it to the bank and exchange. I still get old 20s n 50s every now & then.

I do agree it is very testing times , as I am in the UK if I have to pay £45 for delivery say for instance on £45 worth of supplies some of which I can’t find in the UK it double the said cost of supplies. Thanks for reply, keep up the outstanding work.

That doesn’t look like a fake note. That was before the redesigns and before security features in new notes. But look up images of that years bill and see that your note looks identical

I am sad when good work is paid with bad money. That should never happen.

Another way to check for conterfeit bills is to feel the jacket of the president on front. It should be textured almost like fiber on that part of the image. Older bills (before the internal strip) are what they usually print. When I worked retail you would see this all the time.

@nopenope1508

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's a very little known fact. The "20" or whichever denomination the bill is will also be textured. You would need plates to fake it.

In the UK we uv scanners and pens but mostly we check like you have the older way of using light

Check microprinting. Older bills used microprinting as a security feature. Use a magnifying glass to check for microprinting, which will appear in different spots depending on the year the bill was issued. For example, in $100 bills issued between 1990-1996, the words “The United States of America” should appear on the outer edge of the portrait oval.[14] For bills issued between 1996-2013, “USA100” should appear in the numeral 100 on the lower left-hand corner. You should also see “The United States of America” in the left lapel of Franklin’s coat.

Hi, try looking at the bills with a UV light. They should have some markings with uv ink on them. I have to admit that counterfeit is kinda impressive...

Forget about the pen! The common yellow ones use an iodine solution to test for the presence of starch. Most modern counterfeit bills do not contain starch. Modern bills (not the vintage 1981s) contain multiple indicators so first check the easy ones like the watermark, and colored strip. Invest in a simple jeweler's loupe (

You can use an UV light. All watermarks and the silver line in original notes will glow under the UV light. Fake notes will never show watermarks and will not glow.

@CstriderNNS

3 жыл бұрын

unless they take the time to implement them

@SianaGearz

3 жыл бұрын

Pre 1990 bills don't have watermarks, don't have a line, and don't have UV reactive bits either.

@CstriderNNS

3 жыл бұрын

@@SianaGearz that is why when ever a bank note that are old , reach any banks they are sent off to be destroyed , and new ones are printed to take there place.

beautiful to see good craftsmanship. Not many left of the old school.

7:04 Oh yeah, get a look at those NAKED PINS!

Here's a test: Mail it to the Treasury Department! Include a cover letter explaining that you are a business and it was passed to you, and that you think it is likely valid but the bank rejected it as unverifiable. Treasury Dept will absolutely know how to verify it, and if it's valid, replace it with a modern bill.

A good trick is to scratch the ink where the persons shoulder is on the front of the bill. The ink is always raised ever so slightly and you can feel the texture, or lack thereof, pretty quickly. If you are unable to feel any raised ink, at the very least it will allow you to become suspect of the bill. As a secondary check, you can also hold it up to a light and see if there is a holographic picture of the person hidden between the layers. It is generally only visible when held up to light. If these two things are missing from the bill, I never accept them.

Maybe the fake $100 bill was from a customer who just found out his device was repaired with a part form a "donor" board with 200,000 miles on it. I hope he was notified but then again, you were a car salesman. Great video.

@jackiePOGU

2 жыл бұрын

Wtf are you on about

@taboracho621

2 жыл бұрын

@@jackiePOGU About 8 3/4

Check the smd capacitors, maybe still working

I'm with those that use UV light. Otherwise if I don't have that on me I crumple the bill and if it expands to try and straighten out it's a legit bill, otherwise plain paper would stay crumpled with minimal expansion. This is if I want to make sure even after checking watermark and security strip on the bill.

In the UK £50 notes r our highest denomination note and we check them with a similar pen but our pen only marks the note if it is fake. since a few years ago we have had to start checking them the old fashioned way because the counterfeiters have been coating them with hairspray so the pen doesn't mark them.

100$ bills that are older also don't have certain things on them compared to now days

A camera with the IR filter removed and a visible light cut filter installed will show you some interesting features on real money, too.

They use hairspray to defeat the pen. In the Netherlands shops they have a little machine that checks the money if it is real or fake.

If it isn't just an old bill, then its a washed bill which is why it passed the marker test (take a lower denomination bill and wash it and re-print on top).

You got a North Korean super bill. Nice souvenir, but a bit expensive. Banks in my country confiscate fake bills and you may go to prison even if you're innocent.

@JohnnyFTD

3 жыл бұрын

Top manufacturer of counterfeits. North Korean super notes are not as rare as people think and it's unfortunate people pay the price when they are innocent.

In Finland they just use quick machine to check at cashier. It takes in and checks i assume multiple things of the bills and gives error if fake. Quick and easy.

Its been a old thing that people bleach $1,5 and 10 bills and reprint them. Gotta use all tools to make sure.

@JerryMetal

3 жыл бұрын

are American bills all the same size? :S

@fluffball1415

3 жыл бұрын

@@JerryMetal Yes

@LukeBenc

3 жыл бұрын

@@fluffball1415 Oof.

That bill is most definitely real. You can see the red and blue thread in that paper that are only added at the press. The stripe was not added until the 90s.

I like your cleaning technique with the paper towel. I am going to use that from now on.

They wash old bills and print different denominations on it. So it will pass pen test and also some old bills don’t have the security stripe but they have a watermark of some sort.

That's easy to do! Making that counterfeit money look so real is the hardest part! Where are the lines? they float!!!

The bill looks real to me. Sometimes on these older bills the strips can fall out, or some idiot pulled it out for fun. I used to do that back in the day on the twenties for my uv art project.

The pens only work on the paper itself, people bleach 5s and such and reprint higher values, you need to use a backlight to check the security strip each denomination has a specific color strip. as all 5s and up has a security strip so dont assume just cause it has one that it is that actual denomination. Also the watermark is a indicator , but its a bit harder now.

It could be an old bill, my late uncle has a bunch of new notes stored in his cabinet, and many years later we discover alot of them still kept in brand new condition.

You can use the pen in addition to checking for the line against the light. It only takes a few more seconds to do.

You should still use the pen. This should teach you to never rely on a *single* method, combine them.

I use my eyes hands and nose. I used to work in vietnam and had to rely on jewelry shops to convert my Vietnamese dong into usd... was a very stressful and always worried that someone would rip me off, since it usually was several months of savings.

The bill was pressed in 1981 04:47. The aluminum transparency strip was added in 1990 along with microprinting around the Presidents frame (any bill 1990-1996 you will see THEUNITEDSTATESOFAMERICA repeated). 1996 the watermark was added and in 2013- we started printing funny money! Take it to the bank and have them authenticate it- if they say it's fake, they might take it and ask some questions but it shouldn't hurt either way.

So get the year of the bill. Research the security measures used on bills from a certain period. I wouldn't throw that bill away just yet. Also, there aren't any stores around you that deal with old coins and bills that can verify that for you?

Love the part of the fake bills. Thanks for sharing

The Secret Service has published guides on the security features of most bills going back to at least the 1980's. Pens can be defeated by chemical agents, and many chemical agents actually ruin the counterfeit pen anyways so they won't work right anymore. UV lights, magnifying glasses, and backlights are the typical tools combined with inspecting the bills to match it with the security features of that series bill. Another good test is often times the dimensions of counterfeits are wrong, so you can compare the size of it to a known good bill. Sometimes you may need to get down to making sure all the markings are appropriate, and even then the human eye can only go so far. A 1980's series $100 bill does not have a security thread so it would not have helped you. Suspicious bills should also generally be mailed into the Secret Service. It is really weird your bank didn't do that when you brought it to them.

Happened to me, $300 the bank confiscated it and police we called and had to give statement. A show on TV about North Korea had purchased the same machine we use in the US and passed off a bunch of the older bills. SUCKS!

A quick check for any US printed bill is to scrape the edge of your fingernail over the print at the bottom of the portrait. Real money has raised ink. It''s almost like a dull, fine file.

Knew a guy selling fake 100s for $20 a pop. They passed the pen test as well. The second I learned about it being in town we stopped taking bills bigger than a 20.

Huge respect from Romania, love your work and learned a lot of things from your videos!

I worked as a ticket officer in metro before and people say you should always shine large notes with UV lights.

@hxhdfjifzirstc894

3 жыл бұрын

Metro ticket officers don't know dick about old bills.

It's not fake, just an old 100. As a gas station clerk I had came across multiple bills without the strip in the bill, marked clear with the marker.

That bill was printed between March 17, 1981 - July 5, 1983 (this is the time frame Angela Marie Buchanan was the US Treasurer). This was before any counterfeit measures were placed. You will not see that stripe you are referring to as it wasn't put into money until 1990. The bank would not give you back a counterfeit bill. They would hold it and contact Secret Service. They most likely refused the bill as the normal means of verifying it’s authenticity could not be done.

@punker4Real

Жыл бұрын

when will the Secret Service pickup brandon for printing trillions? and giving it away ?

The Secret Service might be interested. IIRC they handle criminal counterfeiting for the US Treasury.

Look for the red and blue security threads on old bills.

Love from Maldives 🇲🇻, love your work, I learned few tricks from you, keep up the good work 👏👏

@roseelectronics4582

3 жыл бұрын

From Maldives too. Where do you live brother?

The pen test is easily bypassed by spraying them with a thin layer of hairspray. This is commonly known in the UK and pens are never used because of this. The pub i ran used UV lights at each register instead. Rasied lettering, paper quality watermark and silver threaded are the true tests. However in the uk they now have a plastic window with a hologram which is easier to check.

My mom has been in banking for 30 years. Some use five dollar bills to print on, and that’s why they pass the ink test. Gets tricky when dealing with a lot of money. Probably was real and she was young, not really seeing too many bills prior to 1990. But, it is an issue, but everything does look good. The bill would still have the president watermark though.

As a young kid i remember some Kids at school "20+ years ago" use to pull out the security thread out of 20's with tweezers.

In the Philippines, if there is no uv light nearby to check the money, we used to do the "crumple test" where we compare the alleged fake money against the legit by crumpling both of them on each hand. We then watch them unfurl and compare the rate they unfurl. Genuine money will unfurl almost in the same manner each time while the fake ones unfurl like a regular paper.

@hxhdfjifzirstc894

3 жыл бұрын

That's a great idea. Take a valuable collector's item and crumple it up, to make sure it's no longer worth more than $100.

@ReynaxisSolutions

3 жыл бұрын

@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 Well, I don't know about your country. But in the Philippines, it's acceptable to crumple money. But you are not allowed to write anything on it.

u can use a blacklight scanner to identify the printed pattern.

depending on how old the bill is it wont have the line, but it would have to be pretty old. Series 1990 was the first year in which United States banknotes higher than $2 contained security strips and other new anticounterfeiting technology. and if they went through the trouble to be 100 percent on all the other stuff why not put a strip in there if its a date that required one?

@Veiss7

3 жыл бұрын

It was marked 1981, so it's probably a real bill. I think the bank will just return it because they don't know that either and just use a strip reader.

Bank: your money is fake we test it. Northridgefix: lets check under the microscope for signs

The fake bill has no watermarkers inside of them! It's easy to see it's a fake when you look at it close. TBH i use a pen as well and did not know it could pass the test like that. You are right, always look and better use a blacklight to see if it's fake. Hope you remember your customer and try to get him reported.

There's a machine that can check the bill faster and more accurately than you eyeballing it. Get that machine.

Good chance there are more floating around. Sorry to hear this. There should also be a watermark for that bill.

@hxhdfjifzirstc894

3 жыл бұрын

No there's no watermark on old money like that.

Every bill is printed using a printing press which pushes the letters and numbers down into the paper you should be able to feel the slight indents on them if it is real. Real money is not printed from computer printers but with presses

Several posters already mentioned it is probably a $1 or $5 that has been washed and had $100 printed over it. It might have a watermark for the original bill in the paper when you hold it up to a light if it is 2000(?) or newer paper. That is why the paper passes the feel and pen test. I too am surprised the bank gave it back to you. I would collect money like that for my own entertainment but don't want any federal employees interviewing me. I vaguely remember reading an article about 30 years ago. Maybe from Readers Digest? Third world countries were getting ahold of our old money printing presses and printing all the US money they wanted. I also read that programs like Paint and Adobe specifically do not allow a person to print the colors (or scan minute details?) of money in order to avoid people using printers to make fakes. You are right. The font should be the same as what is on the $5. Just checked a 2003 $100 I have. Sorry for your loss. More than likely the person that paid you was unaware it was fake too. It could have changed hands several times before your bank finally caught it.

My 93 series was rejected by machines at the self check out.

I've seen 100$ fakes printed on $5 bleached bills, the only way to tell was the UV strip, and also the face that is printed when looking thru light. For instance it had a Abraham Lincoln face instead of a Benjamin Franklin.

Your solder joints look like baguette diamonds!

In the UK banks legally have to retain any fake notes and inform the police, in case you then try to pass it on to someone else

@Veiss7

3 жыл бұрын

That's also true in the US. It was a real bill but they just can't validate bills older than 1990 printing because they didn't have security features like newer bills. That's what I think happened here. I looked closely at the footage of the bill and it was marked 1981.

Oh thats a problem, maybe you should use a uv-light at the cash desk. I dont know if us-dollar bills use indicators for uv-light but i think so. There is also a machine that allows you to do a quick-check for euro-bills, maybe there is also one for dollar bills. Very nice and clean work on the charging-flex. Thats how it should look like, better than factory. Good work

Alex if you have a business Costco near you they sell a bill checker that has UV light and magnetic ink tester. Seriously the only method I would trust is the magnetic ink test I have seen fake bills pass the UV light test and watermark test but fail the magnetic ink test.

That's not that surprising... I've come across a few bills that passed the pen test as well. There is an over the counter clear spray paint that they use to spray a light coat on fake bills and the paint makes them pass the pen test. I agree with others though, that bill doesn't look fake, just old before the security thread was introduced. Ask another bank to verify it. Most fake bills don't have the red and blue fibers in the paper either, but that bill had them.

I only accept coins and bite them.

@pokiblue5870

3 жыл бұрын

I can take doge coins :)

Brad is correct man I would have that looked at again

There is a machine that you can pass money through and it will tell you what bill it is 5, 10, 100, etc. or if its a fake bill. Im not sure if you have that machine there in the US but this is what I see here in Germany.

It's an older 100. What series is it. Checked in quarter speed. Bill says it is 1981 which had much less features to check. Paper probably from a legit 1 or 5

@Diglett_Dude

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it says 81, but it's fake so can you believe that it's from 81?

@Veiss7

3 жыл бұрын

I think the banks just won't accept bills that don't have the new security marks. That's probably why they didn't open an investigation into it(I'm guessing since he was allowed to keep it without police involved).

Even old fashion way still can get bypassed. As a cashier for 3 years, You'll pick up a lot of fake bills. And on very rare occasion find a super bill. Save the time and effort and get a bill check machine