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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 367475, member: 4626"]You can see multiple colors in the inks. A genuine bill should only ever have black and green ink on it. Look especially at the treasury seal... you can see it blending with the "TEN" in the way it shouldn't if it were two distinct printings a genuine bill would get. Look at the breaks in the border around Hamilton's portrait too. You can also see the edges aren't as sahrp as they should be on a genuine bill and can see some of the dots from the printer...</p><p><br /></p><p>With the bill in hand it should be pretty easy to tell by feeling the texture of the paper. Also see if the microprinting is present and distinct... hold it up to a light, there should be security strip in it I believe if genuine (were they put in ten's yet in 1995? If so, this seems to lack one, which would be enough to call it fake by itself.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Since the things that make it questionable are pretty subtle and may be because of a bad scan or just a porr condition bill, I won't say I'm 100% sure it's fake... but I'd lean that way... would want to examine it in hand to say for sure. Could ask a banker to see what they think; most are pretty well trained in detecting counterfeits.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 367475, member: 4626"]You can see multiple colors in the inks. A genuine bill should only ever have black and green ink on it. Look especially at the treasury seal... you can see it blending with the "TEN" in the way it shouldn't if it were two distinct printings a genuine bill would get. Look at the breaks in the border around Hamilton's portrait too. You can also see the edges aren't as sahrp as they should be on a genuine bill and can see some of the dots from the printer... With the bill in hand it should be pretty easy to tell by feeling the texture of the paper. Also see if the microprinting is present and distinct... hold it up to a light, there should be security strip in it I believe if genuine (were they put in ten's yet in 1995? If so, this seems to lack one, which would be enough to call it fake by itself.) Since the things that make it questionable are pretty subtle and may be because of a bad scan or just a porr condition bill, I won't say I'm 100% sure it's fake... but I'd lean that way... would want to examine it in hand to say for sure. Could ask a banker to see what they think; most are pretty well trained in detecting counterfeits.[/QUOTE]
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