Here is a cheap solution for checking US Currency.
Dri Mark 351UVB Dual Test UV Light and Detector Pen Combo
There are some very high quality forgeries out there. The one you really need to be aware of and careful about are the forgeries that are real money. What the forger does is takes a lessor bill, then bleaches it, and then prints the higher denomination bill on top.
There are a few things you can do to tell a forgery of this type, first the strip on the inside of the bill has the denomination imprinted on it, and if held up to the light can be read. If you are given a $100 dollar bill, and it tests good with the pen for example but you hold it up to the light and can see the strip with a $5 dollar denomination, you know what you have, a forgery.
Also, there are little red and blue colored hairs all throughout the paper. If it has been bleached, the bill will look too white. Some forgers tumble the currency in a dryer with plastic poker chips, which when the plastic gets hot will cause blue and red colors to imprint on the forged currency giving it a similar look, but if you look closely you can plainly see if the red/blue hairs are hairs or just markings.
The holograms are a good way to tell, but some people have become very adept at recreating very realistic holograms.
The feel of the currency will be very different if fake, currency is made from a cotton fiber paper. Ask someone who is blind how they can tell the difference between real and fake, or a $5.00 bill and $100.00. They have a lot of little tricks they use.
I have been fortunate enough I guess to have handled a lot of money when I owned retail stores. Not that I made a lot of money, I didn't, but I counted a lot. Just counting bills you get used to them feeling a specific way, and when you touch something that doesn't feel right it captures your attention automatically without even thinking about it. If the money doesn't feel right, don't worry about offending anyone check it, scrutinize it, make sure it's real. In this day and age nobody should complain about you checking to make sure the bills are real, and if they do then it's a fairly good bet you probably shouldn't be doing business with them anyway.
Scott
- Well now I know what a fake money looks lilke...
Well now I know what a fake money looks lilke...
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Originally Posted by jiffy117
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