I bought a new office chair at Office max. I passed the guy a 100.00 bill he used some kinda bill ID tool not a pen but it had large bill denominations on it he looked at it for a while and determined it was a legit bill does anyone know what kinda device this is?
A "kinda bill ID tool" with "large bill denominations on it". Not a very helpful description, but I'd guess it was a piece of paper with a picture of the different bills on it.
Probably something like this. Do $5's have two stripe positions? I guess nobody bothers to make counterfeit $2's.
The colorized $5's have the stripe in a different position than the old not-colorized $5's. People were bleaching the ink off of $5's and using the paper to print fake $100's, so the stripe on the $5 was moved to a position very different from its position on the $100. (This is also why the watermark on the colorized $5's is a big numeral "5" now.) The $1 and $2 don't have the stripe or watermark at all, so this little gizmo won't be much use for testing them.
I've seen those. I hope convenience stores purchase some of these and encourage use of $50s and $100s (they have quite a stigma these days due to thieves paying for goods with counterfeit $100 bills) so many convenience stores do not allow bills over $20 to be used.
