scottishmoney wrote:
This morning I went to the bank and made the weekly withdrawl. One of
the $100's just didn't quite look right the ink was a bit off. I
looked at it up against the overhead light, and sure enough, it was
Abraham Lincoln's watermark, not Ben Franklin's.

Someone had apparently bleached a $5 and printed the $100 over it.
The crazy thing was handing it back to the teller and telling her it
was a counterfeit, she did not believe me and used the counterfeit
detector pen on it. Of course it appeared authentic according to the
detector pen, because the paper was real. I had her look at the
watermark, and sure enough she verified she saw Lincoln too. The pen
thing would have thrown her, because this was a bleached $5 bill that
was used, so the paper was good, but not for a $100 bill.

If it had been up to a $20 I would have kept it as a curiousity, but
a $100 is a bit much to swallow. I subsequently found out that there
have been a rash of them circulating in our area lately. The teller
had purchased it from another teller earlier whom had taken it in
from a deposit. Somebody was not careful when they took in money
today.
I have always thought counterfeits were something I woudl never find -
surprise!

When I get a wad of 100s at the bank I often wonder if any of them might be
counterfeit. As good as a teller or cashier might be, they have only so
much time to look at the bills that cross their counters, and it's
inevitable that eventually they'll take a bad one and even pass it on -
maybe to me.

James