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Sap Moderator Australia 16869 Posts	Posted 03/12/2015 11:58 pm Most reproductions out there are copies of copies of copies of examples held in various museums and public collections; as such, only a small selection of possible serial numbers have been replicated. Therefore, the easiest way to determine if your note is a repro is to look it up on one of various websites that list serial numbers of fake notes - I think the Crutchfields Currency list has been up ever since there was an Internet - and look to see if your serial numbers are listed there. In the case of the OP's notes, The $50 1861 #31351, $50 1864 #59204 and $1000 #176 are all on the list. So they're all confirmed bogus. There are other ways; comparing the ink on the signatures with the ink on the rest of the note, for instance; 19th century pen ink contained iron oxide and stains differently to the carbon-black printer's ink the note would have been printed with. They should not look the same shade of black; the signatures should be brownish, and often it has stained through to the other side of the note. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16869 Posts	Posted 03/13/2015 12:09 am For a comparison, here's my Confederate States $5, which I paid quite a bit more than $5 for from an American dealer some years ago: Serial number is 60685, which isn't listed, so it's got the all clear there. Also note the different colour the pen-ink of the serial number and signatures. The ink has also gone through to the back slightly, but you can't see it in the heightened contrast I used for those scans. It should also be pointed out that there's nothing stopping a replica-maker from obtaining a new, never-seen-before note and making copies of that one. So it's always worth occasionally re-checking these bogus note lists to see if yours has recently been added. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
hajduk Pillar of the Community Germany 645 Posts	Posted 03/13/2015 11:02 am Here are some examples for real CSA Currency. Edited by hajduk 03/13/2015 11:18 am Report this Post to the Staff
jimbucks Pillar of the Community United States 4692 Posts	Posted 03/13/2015 3:53 pm I especially like the notes with the interest redeemed stamps on them. Report this Post to the Staff
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