Spotting fake hundos
 

I routinely sell chips at the table. It speeds the game up, and it allows me to virtually color up w/o bothering the chip runners. Anyway, I have a weird looking hundo. It's series 1981, and the head on Benny is all smallish. It SMELLS right, but it doesn't have a strip in it. I tried to find a picture of what series 1981 bills looked like but I couldn't. Any help here?
Do you guys have any tips on how to spot fake hundos? I don't really wanna stop selling chips, but if this turns out to be fake, I just might have to.

Re: Spotting fake hundos
 

A bill that old will look funny. They didn't have strips in them back then and Ben will be the same size as the current $1 portrait. The best way to tell a fake is by feel - nothing feels like money like money.

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What he said. A 100 that old will look fake to most people, esp since they don't have any of the new security features. I had an 82 bill I thought was fake, but when I went to spend it no problem. AFAIK they're taking those bills out of circulation as they get them back in but they're still legal tender.

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If i routinely sold chips, I would know what to look/feel/smell for.

Would be interesting to do a blind feel test. Where do fakes come from these days and what series are they?

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Office Depot sells "counterfeit detector" markers. If in doubt, test it. Office Depot also sells these packaged with little keychain mini-UV lights, which highlight some of the security features on newer bills.

I keep both with me on the job, and also check for look/feel as I go.


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Office Depot sells "counterfeit detector" markers. If in doubt, test it. Office Depot also sells these packaged with little keychain mini-UV lights, which highlight some of the security features on newer bills.

I keep both with me on the job, and also check for look/feel as I go.


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Those markers aren't very effective.

Re: Spotting fake hundos
 

most fakes are so good you can't even tell anymore, the good ones are 1$ bills that have been washed and made into 100s

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I always look for the red and blue threads in the paper.
Also try http://www.secretservice.gov/money_detect.shtml

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I quite selling chips at the table because of this. I've seen fakes discovered at Commerce and Bike a couple of times.

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If it looks real to you its gonna look real to the guy who you are gonna buy something from, I think I saw something like 1% of the hundreds are fake, you already had dozens of them and passed them along without a blink.