When I was working at Taco Bell 3 years ago, I caught two examples: A. A $100 printed on lienen stock paper with a high dpi laser jet printer. The Counterfeiter even rubberstamped a "watermark" in the right spot I presume with glue. And fit a solid "security" thread into the paper. Quite impressive. B. Another $100 bill series 1976 I believe printed on real money paper, again with a high dpi printer. The only way I knew it was fake was by magnification and seeing pixels at around 10-15x they were prominent. Still impressive but the colors were off and almost washed out in appearance which arose my initial suspicion.
I’ve only held two counterfeit notes, and one had a very convincing feel but lacked a little definition. One I still own. Pick the culprit from this lineup.
I also though the top one looked a little different, but hard to tell from a picture. I certainly would not give a thought to any of them if I had them unless one of them feels different.
Definitely agree, especially the scrollwork around the border. But, if you had a handful of $20’s and were, let’s say counting them, you would probably not be suspicious if mixed in with them.
If the "paper" is different, then anyone trained in handling cash will feel the difference when they count through the notes.
On the top note the green seal is skewed to the right, not in the center of the word twenty like the other two notes.
I guess the highest quality counterfeit I have seen is the one I missed, I just didn't notice it in my transactions.There are said to be very excellent ones in circulation.
That's the kind of mistake I would expect to not see on a counterfeit that comes from a color printer. There's no reason for one color to be offset from the others in that case.
That was essentially what I was going to say. Whatever note it was, if any, it fooled both me and the person or machine that got it next.
The top note is clearly the counterfeit, but not because of the position of the seal. I have seen genuine notes with the seal slightly off center, and the original from which the image was taken may have had that. But the detail everywhere is wrong, especially visible in the face and scroll work, but also in the "floating" print behind and around the green seal. In hand I would also suspect there is no microprinting anywhere, although this does not show on the genuine notes either in the pictures. I would also suspect in hand the watermark would be missing or "off."