My first ever old $20 circulation find.. Could it be a "Super Dollar"?

Let's see here... It was roughly 3 years ago. It was a nice summer day in Sacramento, California. My mom asks me to go return something at Wal Mart for her. So I rode my bike to go Wal Mart to get some exercise. I waited a good 20 minutes in the return line before I finally made it to the cashier. I returned the item which was like $43. I received back an AU 1981 $20 KA as change. Isn't that a little weird? I read online somewhere that big corporations secretly buy thousands and thousands of good counterfeit cash at discount and spread them throughout their stores. I'm just wondering if there is at all a Federal website that lists S/N ranges of Super Dollars?

-tbud

 

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Lets just suppose for a second, that this is true....I would think that any business that engages in this practice would have the feds pounding down their doors sooner or later. Y'know, seeing as what they would be doing is highly illegal.

It's not that weird to receive older notes like that, that are in nice shape. I've received several older $20's over the last few years, that were quite nice, and were also quite real.

The only thing you can do if you doubt the authenticity (assuming that you don't want to submit the note to the secret service, or conduct the pen test) is check the paper for the embedded red & blue security fibers.

 

I thought the counterfeit "Super Dollar" was a $100 denomination produced by the N.Korean's.

 

I heard in the news that they print $100's and $20's.

I checked the paper and it does in fact have the fibers. That's the issue though, these "Super Dollars" are supposed to have those too.

-tbud

 

I dunno, worthless paper which could readily be reported as "assets" yet remain in perpetuity in the tills of the stores has some merit.

There was a story recently on the N. Korean notes which were virtually indetectable as counterfeit, the most compelling aspect of which was that the volume was trivial (despite being in the hundreds of millions)

 

they are $100's they wouldnt waste their time on 20's