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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NOS, post: 1389104, member: 2098&quot;]Do those black markings look like actual sharpie? If they&#039;re just markings from a counterfeit pen they will fade and become transparent. Unfortunately, they look like sharpie markings from the image... Some tellers have been known to mistakenly use a sharpie before realizing they weren&#039;t using the &quot;correct&quot; pen (which doesn&#039;t even work on notes this old to begin with!!!).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The counterfeit &quot;pen&quot; doesn&#039;t work on notes made before around 1960 give or take due to differences in the paper that notes were made from back then. It says this right on the pen packaging but 95% of tellers/cashiers don&#039;t even bother to read this information to begin with. This leads to hundreds of cases each year where perfectly good and collectible notes from the 1950s or before are thought to be counterfeit and sent off to the Secret Service only to be returned as genuine. Often, the word genuine or some variation of it is written right on the note in pen by the Secret Service &quot;expert&quot; who examined the note so such notes are in effect ruined.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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