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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NOS, post: 5375536, member: 2098&quot;]Per the information on the packaging that is usually ignored by cashiers and bank tellers alike, the &quot;pen&quot; is designed to work on currency made from 1960 - present. So a perfectly fine Series 1934 $100 note that is brought in to a bank will often be declared counterfeit from failing the pen test and seized by the bank to be sent off to their nearest Secret Service office. Then the Secret Service will return the note a week or two later with a notation that it is genuine. One can just imagine the dumbfounded stares of confusion by these same bank employees when they see this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bank tellers will often tell you that the general populous is not accepting of the old-design notes and usually refuse to accept them by tellers out of ignorance. This leads bank tellers to send them off in their mute piles to meet their end.</p><p><br /></p><p>Indeed. There seems to be little education to the younger generations by their parents about notes that were ubiquitous only 25 years ago. Every now and then you will read articles how cashiers at a mall or what have you falsely declare a 1993 $20 note to be fake and have the police summoned. Sometimes customers are falsely accused or even arrested for trying to use what turns out to be perfectly good &quot;old&quot; money.</p><p><br /></p><p>The government bears responsibility for the manifesting of such ignorance. All of the so-called government education to the public is about recognizing the security features of current-design notes. To the government it is as if &quot;old style&quot; notes are no longer seen or used the minute a &quot;next gen&quot; note comes out. This line of thinking is flawed as such notes are actually still very common in circulation; it&#039;s just that they are kept from circulating for very long before being filtered out.</p><p><br /></p><p>In summation, be careful where you try using that 1985 $100 note. Using it at a casino, bank, or post office is likely to be fine and not get you a second look but trying to use it at Forever 21 with a 17-year-old cashier may not end well for you. And if the note is in notably nice or crisp condition you may consider setting it aside as a potential collectible or novelty from the not-so-distant past.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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