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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1088359, member: 12789&quot;]<b>My Counterfeit Pen Horror Story</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Back in the fall of 2008 I made a large withdrawal of cash from one of my banks in preparation for going back overseas where I can only use cash and not credit cards.&nbsp; One of the $100 bills had a slightly rougher feel and coarser ink on it than the rest and I then held it up to the light overhead, and sure enough there was Lincoln - not Franklin in the watermark.&nbsp; I handed it back to the teller and told her it was a counterfeit and I wanted it replaced.&nbsp; The first thing she did was start slashing at it with the counterfeit pen, the results of course suggested it was genuine - well duh - and she said it was a good note, it was a bleached $5 that had been printed over with the design of the $100.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had to explain to her that the watermark in the note was Lincoln and not Franklin like it should have been.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have to bet she got in trouble over that incident - for taking in the note, then handing it out - while her manager overheard the whole thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>The moral of the story is those stupid pens are no real indicator of what is fake and not fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW the pens should work on all Series 1963 and newer notes that are dry printed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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