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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I just picked up this one dollar bill from my bank today. Paper has the colored threads, appears to feel correct. This bill is well circulated, has been taped together after its been torn. As one can see it only has 7 digits in the serial number, yet it looks like there is enough room for a 9 digit serial number. It also appears the bill may have been through a wash load. I don't see any ghosting where numbers should be or any signs of the note being scratched off where a number should be. I am stumped on this one. The bank manager does not believe the bill is counterfit. It does not look counterfit to me. Please take a look and tell me what you all think.   "LOVE THE HUNT!"
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4637 Posts |
Wrong font, wrong spacing and wrong number of digits in the serial number.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
Steve - so, a genuine note with an altered serial number?!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7613 Posts |
Genuine note with a counterfeit replacement serial number for some strange reason. Somebody went to a lot of trouble to create this. Weird!
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Valued Member
United States
65 Posts |
I look at a lot of serial numbers, and I'm used to the K having the lower leg meeting only the upward-facing leg of the K. I don't remember every seeing a K that has the lower leg directly meet the upright as shown on your bill. This is from a $1 bill I happen to have at hand. It has the K style I'm used to seeing:  Edited by CreativeName
08/29/2023 7:01 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4637 Posts |
I agree with Sky.
How it's survived so long in the wild is a mystery to me. It's well worn, taped, not one decent corner and it has that funky serial number. And, the OP got this from his bank. The note is a train wreck.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Why on earth would someone have created this? Just for the challenge?  |
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Valued Member
United States
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It looks like it was done with an Atari 2600 and some lime green bingo ink.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
807 Posts |
Those digits are not the correct shape at all. Show me a genuine US serial number with a "tail" on the "1" like that!
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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Why on earth would someone have created this? Just for the challenge? My first guess would have been that the wash cycle involved some chemicals that washed off the serial number, and of course a US bill requires a serial number to be redeemable, so they decided to make up some of their own. But AFAIK the seal contains the same pigment as the serial (same printing), and the seal is intact, so it can't be that. Not sure what happened, then. IIRC this font normally goes on cheques, intended for machine-readability. It's not even close to the normal serial number font. (And yes, that tailed 1 is an especially obvious giveaway.) |
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 United States
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Interesting novelty for sure.
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Moderator
Australia
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I'm not sure whether the entire note is fake or just the serial numbers, but it definitely didn't leave the BEP printing press looking like that.
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
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United States
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Strange find. It reminds me of the font from my penultimate dot matrix printer from the early 90s.  |
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Posted 08/29/2023 5:05 pm
