At work the other day a customer gave the cashier a 1969 $20 bill. The cashier showed it to me. Just so happens the local loss prevention representative was in the store. She's about 25 years old. She looked at it. She said it was counterfeit. She started to chase the customer down in the parking lot. I stopped her. I told her it wasn't counterfeit. She swore it was. She had never seen a $20 bill like that. I tried to explain to her the changes made in US bills. She had never heard of that. She took the twenty and replaced it with another one. She said if it turns out that the 1969 was counterfeit, it would come out of my check. Young people.
See you should have told her to pull out her smart phone (which 99.9% of "young people" have) and look up 1969 $20 bill. Then you get her back with her own technology
It amazes me how ignorant people my age are. I received in change a counterfeit $10 from a Chinese restaurant once, and when I went to the police they said it was being sent to the Secret Service for investigation. I was also told I'd never get my money back. If she has any brains at all she will show it to her superior or take it to the bank.
ah the stupidity. i first would have laughed at the lp rep. i would have asked what makes you think it is counterfeit. then as mentioned ask them to google it. i mean come on at 25 you should know that money has changed over time.
25 years ago similar bills would have been in circulation. i still see pre-1996 $5,$50, and $100s constantly, and i remember seeing a lot of "old" tens and twenties when i was about 6 or 7 (im 15 now) its really surprising she didn't recognize it, i know 10 year olds who talk about "small head bills" (complaining that vending machines wont take them)
What's amazing to be is when people who work at a bank don't know what "old" money is. You would think you would know when it's your job to know.
This is embarrassing! --good thing I'll be 26 next month. I also fear we are going to have the same issue with the 1996 series big head bills sooner rather than later. Since there aren't many left in circulation I guess that could be a good thing or a bad thing. These were not around very long so I'm assuming they don't show up in stock photos as much.
not many left in circulation?? the majority of fifties i get at banks are 1996-2003, as are a large number of $5s, $10s, and $100s. i dont see very many twenties older than 2004 but the other denominations are about evenly split
Not in this area. The most I'll see is maybe a $5 every few weeks. Even our current style 10's are getting old and ratty. Every other week I'll stop by the casino to look through their 50's and pull out any of the large head style. 100's are 5% at best. I would imagine it will vary from one part of the country to the other. 20's are gone for us, similar to what you mentioned.
I'm 26 and vividly remember small heads growing up in the 90s. Seems odd to me that people in their 20s don't recognize them.
the $1 has very little updating. so if you know what a dollar looks like a 1969 $10 looks very similar. obviously the president and denomination are different but still look alike. so even someone in their teens should know that it's not counterfeit just based on the style of the note. this post just boggles my mind. lol we have no hope for our future generations.
I'll be 29 later this month, and (fondly) remember the small head notes circulating. Like others have said, I can't imagine anyone in their mid or late 20's not knowing what one looks like.
The other bad thing about this is the concept of a fake bill. If someone is going to try and spend something that is fake, it is going to look as real as possible. How does that now click as well?
i went through all the cash in my safe, i currently have 6 small head bills: a five, 3 fifties, 2 hundreds. all of these i have gotten in circulation since January.
How in the heck did she not know about this? did she just assume that money has looked the same since this country was founded? My response would be to first laugh at her for a few seconds then explain that usd have not looked the same since the beginning of time.
