One Sided 1995 $1

I guarantee that the note was not sanded down. The counterfeiter obviously wanted a note with a watermark and the plastic security filament. If you were to try to just sand down a note, there is no reason to use a $5- you would just use a $1. I am not convinced that sanding would ever work though. Many people do not carefully examine the watermark(note specific President although it can be difficult to distinguish which one at a glance) or the filament(the filament has microprinting with the denomination although magnification is needed) and so as long as "something" is there, it is good enough.

The pens fail miserably in this case because it is a paper(linen) reaction and not specific to the denomination. The best foolproof Counterfeit Detection is to use a handheld UV light on the security filament- each denomination fluoresces a different color in UV light. Notes like that are bleached and then reprinted. Your average household Clorox(5% sodium hypochlorite) will not work and I just tried 30% hydrogen peroxide to no avail(the stuff you find in a pharmacy is 3%, 30% H2O2 will severely burn skin) so it much require a heavy duty bleaching agent.

If you're talking about the "reply with quote" that a lot of forums have that grabs an entire post and puts in in your post, I deliberately removed it. You also won't see ridiculously long posts here because of a quote inside a quote inside a quote inside a quote because I've forced people to only pick the relevant text instead of taking the lazy easy way out.

As BigFredd said use the reply and not the quick reply the button will pop in the tags.

It was sanded down. The paper was rough on both sides.

Well then you probably saw the note then.

You actually tried the belt sander!


Ill have to do that. (But a 20?) are you nuts.

A belt sander? are you serious?

I can NOT even fathom how you would do that without tearing up your fingers>