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<p>[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 428819, member: 12789"]The colour was off on it, it was just a bit darker, and had no embossing in the ink. When I held it up to the light the dead giveaway was no Ben Franklin in the watermark, but Abraham Lincoln. I subsequently called the branch manager and let her know what happened, since she was in a meeting when all this came up(I know her personally) Anyway, there has apparently been a bit of a rash of these going around in our area lately, and she had specifically instructed her tellers to watch for them. The teller I had gotten it from had purchased it with a bundle of notes from another teller just this morning, and apparently it had come in from a deposit this morning.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it was something like a $20 or something I would have kept it as an education piece, but $100 from grocery money is a bit hard to swallow unless the kids want to eat astro turf for dinner instead.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 428819, member: 12789"]The colour was off on it, it was just a bit darker, and had no embossing in the ink. When I held it up to the light the dead giveaway was no Ben Franklin in the watermark, but Abraham Lincoln. I subsequently called the branch manager and let her know what happened, since she was in a meeting when all this came up(I know her personally) Anyway, there has apparently been a bit of a rash of these going around in our area lately, and she had specifically instructed her tellers to watch for them. The teller I had gotten it from had purchased it with a bundle of notes from another teller just this morning, and apparently it had come in from a deposit this morning. If it was something like a $20 or something I would have kept it as an education piece, but $100 from grocery money is a bit hard to swallow unless the kids want to eat astro turf for dinner instead.[/QUOTE]
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