Counterfeit Singles In Southern Indiana

Dasaki, I am not overly familiar with collecting notes and the picture is slightly blurry. But what makes this one a counterfeit? Is it the paper? It looks like a beat up One Dollar bill to me. And I can't imagine that it would be very profitable to counterfeit a One Dollar Bill.

Evidently not the person who took it in on the previous shift.

We're seeing a lot of counterfeit 20's & $100's in Indianapolis. People are using an evolved technique similar to the one you described . Bleaching new $5's (the ones with the offset portrait watermark visible in light) and reprinting larger denominations. They are printed on legitimate currency paper so they pass counterfeit pen tests, and when held to the light...the cashier sees a portrait & assumes its legit (typically not realizing the portrait is of a different man). I only caught it when running the bill through an electronic currency counter and the total was different then when hand counted.

Allranger, you can tell this bill is counterfeit by the color the streaks of the counterfeit marker changed to. If a legitimate bill the ink is barely noticeable & soft yellow. If it turns dark, brown, or black it's illegitimate.

This sounds like the story in the old 1950 film "Mister 880"
where Edmund Gwenn counterfeits one dollar bills and Burt Lancaster
is the Treasury agent who catches him.