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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 685236, member: 12789&quot;]Sorry to say, this is nothing new.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I get weird responses from eBay sellers all the time, because I will ask for images of the reverse of the note.&nbsp; That is where all the tell tale signs of having been folded etc. are.&nbsp; When banknotes are folded, even softly, there is some degree of paper breakage.&nbsp; When they are folded hard, there is paper breakage and some dirt or foreign matter imbedded.&nbsp; I recently had this come up with an early 20th century Scottish note that I saw on eBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>When they are cleaned, doctored, pressed etc, the tell tale signs are all there to see on close examination.&nbsp; The $20 here shows all the tell tale signs of having been pressed on the reverse, notice where the folds are are now flattened unduly -the surface of the paper is not even and is dull.&nbsp; Pressing is something that fools a lot of people, and as others have noticed, fools TPG&#039;s too.&nbsp; You often have to really look at the note closely, even with a magnifying glass or high resolution scan to see the problems.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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