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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NOS, post: 1533170, member: 2098&quot;]This is not really a strap find per se but yesterday I was at a bank and I asked the teller if she had any old hundreds. She checked her drawer to no avail but told me the story about a woman who brought in around six 1934 hundreds the day before. The teller took one of the hundreds from this lady and said that the bill was counterfeit. She said it felt like monopoly money and that the counterfeit pen turned black. She then called the Secret Service and gave them the notes serial number. Supposedly this serial number is on some list that flags for counterfeits. The teller told the lady that she is seizing this hundred to submit to the SS and that if she hands over any more those will be seized as well. She told the lady if the SS says the note is good she will get her money back. The teller was quite confident that this would not be happening.</p><p><br /></p><p>I detected some problems with this situation. First, I told her that the packaging on those counterfeit pens states that they don&#039;t work on notes from before &quot;series 1959&quot;. Second, I told her that currency from the 1930s feels different than currency from today. The paper feels smoother, for example. Third, I find it interesting that the serial number from a 1934 hundred dollar bill raised a red flag at the SS.&nbsp; Unless fake 1934 hundreds are being used all over the place would the SS agent that she talked to have a list of serials for such an old series of hundreds? Perhaps this note was counterfeit and the serial was comprised of a made-up block or was less than 8 digits in length (such as S1234567Q). Maybe I will never find out whether the note was real or not but I found this situation to be interesting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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