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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ikandiggit, post: 1081244, member: 16269&quot;]<span style="color: red"><b>(Educational Interlude)</b></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Nope. One of the ways to identify a Bernhard forgery is by the watermark line touching the middle of the base of the &quot;N&quot;. If you magnify the note a few times, you will see a faint &quot;N&quot; to the left of the signature. The line that rises up to the base in an authentic note, (which this one is) touches the left side end of the base.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another indicator is the bottom detail of &quot;Britannia&quot;. The forgery is rounded rather than sharp (see photo below).</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, most forgeries had a pinhole through Britannia. This with the above two indicators determined the forgery.</p><p><br /></p><p>*Neither the Swiss Bank or Bank of England could detect the forgeries. It wasn&#039;t until a clerk recording the serial numbers of notes returned to be destroyed discovered notes with the same numbers had already been destroyed at an earlier date. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i720.photobucket.com/albums/ww201/ikandiggit/bernhardtnote11a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: blue"><b>Now back to the previous thread</b></span><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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