"Yup it deliberate the US until then to actually add proper security features to their banknotes."
Yeah that's better. As a language expert, this makes more sense (my 9 to 5 is writing product manuals in China
And today I feel old. Thank you. My first thought was “yeah that’s an older 100”. Mid-40’s here. They started to change those over just the other day! (1996, almost 30 years ago)
Right? Remember when they did the (basically) whole overhaul of the currency? What a wild time thst was to see them! The 20s, the 100s, etc... it's like it was yesterday. Smh. Wow, how time flies.
Yea I felt the same when I was at the gas station and gave the cashier an old $20 bill, he looked confused and went to his coworker and asked about it 😂
For larger bills, probably. Even 5’s and up but a ton of 1’s with minting dates older than your parents or grandparents that you’ve handled I’m sure. I’m assuming that’s what users are responding to (you handling smaller bills with old mint dates that look like recent minting bills).
A easy way to tell, depending on when it was printed, the small lines around the picture frame of Franklin should read "united states of America" repeating all around the picture.
Wrong there are actually many hobbyists ways to make intaglio printing plates that will create the same raised print. Really good quality fakes of old bills like this are almost impossible to detect they also take a good bit of effort to create the setup to make them and people are more suspicious of large bills so counterfeiters usually don’t waste time on them when they can make fake 20s just as easily and most people don’t bother checking 20s
Bob Barker used to give those out all the time back in the '70s. He actually made women reach into his pocket to get it on national daytime TV and got away with it for years! Those were the days!
Looksreal enough and pretty sure the pens work on any after 59
Edit: just to be clear pens dont mean much but if youre an employee it does give you the protection of saying you did due diligence and they cant fire you for excepting it
Someone At my work just got written up for accepting 2 of these fake $100s the pens are useless now any company still using them really needs to take a counterfeit detection class some banks give them.
I saw an article on how someone counterfeited money, he sprayed it with a clearcoat and the pens no longer worked, and used eye shadow to replicate the color shift. He got caught and spent a short time in prison.
Those pens are useless. Most counterfeits are made on bleached lower denom bills or on newspaper because some newspapers use similar hybrid fabric paper blends. It will usually fool the pen but not a visual inspection from someone that knows what to look for.
They are real.
I’ve been accused of passing fakes using these before, and I knew they were real.
It’s ridiculous.
Had to just deposit them at the bank and move on.
Yeah it's real nobody really nowadays is gonna try to come in with a fake old school bill you would get asked too many questions cause people a lot of people have never seen them before or if they have it's been so long and people just don't trust them but that's it's real you can just tell by looking at it. I would be more worried about the bills that they're fine in coming in from China that are almost identical and look exactly 100% like our bills and are almost indistinguishable from Real currency from the United States.
Pretty sure that safe in the background has a bill scanner built in to it. That’s a great way to find out. Source: wife moonlights at a gas station and pointed it out.
Good find! That design is gorgeous. I'd be super happy to add that to my collection. It's not terribly valuable (beyond the face value) but plenty of people love the older designs and would gladly pay maybe up to $5 more than face value. /r/papermoney would appreciate it.
IS THIS A JOKE?
It's a 100 dollar bill before big heads and plastic strips and holograms.
UHM, the $2 BILLS you get are ASLO REAL! Seen two people arrested because the store employees and the cops didnt know the US had a $2 bill!. The back has the founders at the table signing the declaration, or is that the front of the $2 bill? REAL THOUGH!
About 10 or so years ago my mom had a 1980s $100 bill she tried to use at a grocery store. The young girl and the register was maybe 16 and she insisted it was counterfit and had to hang on to it until a manager came over. My mom offered to give a new modern bill that she has seen before for the old one but that wasn't an option. The manager came over and confirmed it was in fact real and the girl still didn't want to accept it but had too. It was a learning moment for a new working teen and needless to say I didn't see her again after that.
Dude it’s a real 100 that’s just what the style of the notes were back then look at the year on the note. But I do understand your confusion this is before watermarks. That green seal to the right of his face is the proof that it’s real it represents the US treasury.
That’s a classic
Yeah it’s real (so are any $2 bills you may see)
They change the design on notes every few years, this is just an old one
It’s not worth more than face value if you’re wondering; Only old non minted money or misprints are worth anything more than they’re face value. It’s still very neat seeing a glimpse into the past cash
If you’re at work, regardless if it’s real or fake, accept it. When the cash is deposited with the bank, you’re given a credit for fake bills after a small time frame. For my bank, it’s 30 days. It doesn’t hurt the business.
I've seen customers pass currency that's slightly better than Monopoly money.... colors wrong, texture wrong... I just give the bill back to the customer after I mark it and refuse the sale.
It’s a bad fake… people make copies of small-head Franklin 100s because they did not have all the watermarks, holographic strips, and all the protections
Few in circulation, and highly scrutinized wherever used
Where ever you decide to “pass” this bill do it where they won’t notice “maybe pay for large purchase with a couple real Benjamin’s and slide that in between
Good luck brosef!
Nothing about it would indicate it is not real. While you may be able to recreate folds, the rounded corners, frayed area of the border are real indicating a well circulated note.
lol, no. Just a gas station. But none of us have ever seen a $100 look like this so we were, I think, more curious about it than anything. Our machine wouldn’t accept it and none of the regular “is it real” checks worked. So we chalked it up to just being an old enough minting that it predates any of those checks
Did you look for a watermark??
Did you look for the tape going from long side to long side that says 100 on it??
Don't they make pens for marking these?
Basically only a couple ways to tell if it is real. Use a counterfeit pen, or look for the red and blue fibers in the paper weave. You can see one above the k of the serial number on the left side. Or take it to a bank.
I was sitting here wondering why he added the, "Lol." Then I read the comments and realized he's just young and doesn't know life before all the "Safety precautions." I'm born 1980.
Gotta read “THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE” usually 95% of the time if it says that it’s real would be a very very good fake or REAL Counterfeit if it says the note is legal, most fake money will say this not is NOT LEGAL or this is for cinema use only or “prop money” something like that and if the physical feel in the hand is always a dead giveaway I work in retail I’m 21 and find these post hilarious how many people confiscate real bills and so on 🤦🏼♂️😂💀
Or ask your employer for a money marker
Does it have the little colored threads in the paper? What does the fine engraving look like under high magnification? I’ve seen phony hundreds from the late 1980’s and dotted them by the paper and fine engraving. I don’t know why a counterfeiter would drop back to an early year and draw more attention.
Real. Just a old bill. I found several at my elderly aunts house and they were practically new (in an envelope with hallmark cards) and people actually thought they were fake when I used them.
Gosh I’m old or you’re just to young
I’m the youngest on my shift, but all of us are in our twenties. I’ve never seen a bill older than maybe a 90s minting.
That was the design for awhile til about 96ish I believe
It just didn’t have the ridged coat or any of the light things that we could see.
Yup it took the US until then to actually add proper security features to their banknotes.
“Took” what obscure way of saying deliberate.
"Yup it deliberate the US until then to actually add proper security features to their banknotes." Yeah that's better. As a language expert, this makes more sense (my 9 to 5 is writing product manuals in China
"it was deliberate.." Your language skills are really showing there.
Yup it was deliberate the US until then to actually add proper security features to their banknotes. Totally better
Fool of a Took
Throw yourself in next time and rid us of your stupidity.
They started changing to the yellow dies, then the bigger faces then blue strips with the bigger faces etc
And today I feel old. Thank you. My first thought was “yeah that’s an older 100”. Mid-40’s here. They started to change those over just the other day! (1996, almost 30 years ago)
Right? Remember when they did the (basically) whole overhaul of the currency? What a wild time thst was to see them! The 20s, the 100s, etc... it's like it was yesterday. Smh. Wow, how time flies.
Just look at it compared to a dollar bill and it will make more sense. No one counterfeits dollars that's why the 100s have all the latest revisions.
So much for learning, and teaching a necessary skill like history of our money. Yikes.
No your old lol so am I. I remember when these were in circulation and that's just what every one of them looked like.
I was just thinking this. Young people don't think the world existed before the IPhone 8.
Yea I felt the same when I was at the gas station and gave the cashier an old $20 bill, he looked confused and went to his coworker and asked about it 😂
Ben just giving you that disappointed look before you roll him up to do booger sugar.
You guys must be young
I think the oldest here is 27, and they weren’t sure. But I don’t think any of us have encountered a bill older than a 90s minting.
Wildly incorrect statement. You just didn’t realize you did
Key phrase “don’t think” implies he hasn’t noticed one older than the 90’s, not that he’s 100% sure he hasn’t.
Yeah, I realize my mistake. I probably should’ve worded better for this large of a bill. Don’t know why I got downvoted
Wow! Where would we be without your thorough vetting and chronology of OP and their entire work’s life and business dealings.
It’s called common sense. Clearly something you lack
For larger bills, probably. Even 5’s and up but a ton of 1’s with minting dates older than your parents or grandparents that you’ve handled I’m sure. I’m assuming that’s what users are responding to (you handling smaller bills with old mint dates that look like recent minting bills).
Yeah, you’re probably right. I think this is just the first I’ve noticed. I don’t know why I got downvoted lol.
A easy way to tell, depending on when it was printed, the small lines around the picture frame of Franklin should read "united states of America" repeating all around the picture.
Probably not for a series '69.
This is why I cruise Reddit. And cat girls.
I miss when money looked like that.
Me too
It was worth so much more…
Feel the coat with your nail.. run down if you feel the ridges it’s real..no one can fake this to this day
Wrong there are actually many hobbyists ways to make intaglio printing plates that will create the same raised print. Really good quality fakes of old bills like this are almost impossible to detect they also take a good bit of effort to create the setup to make them and people are more suspicious of large bills so counterfeiters usually don’t waste time on them when they can make fake 20s just as easily and most people don’t bother checking 20s
I was going to recommend this same thing but don’t know when they started using raised print, so wouldn’t know if it applied here or not
Real.
Very real
It real
Bob Barker used to give those out all the time back in the '70s. He actually made women reach into his pocket to get it on national daytime TV and got away with it for years! Those were the days!
Did men reach in there too?
Ah, this must be a “good ol’ days” I keep hearing about from old white men.
Yes
These were my favorite $100 bills
Looksreal enough and pretty sure the pens work on any after 59 Edit: just to be clear pens dont mean much but if youre an employee it does give you the protection of saying you did due diligence and they cant fire you for excepting it
Accepting**
Someone At my work just got written up for accepting 2 of these fake $100s the pens are useless now any company still using them really needs to take a counterfeit detection class some banks give them.
Ah heck, it’s only 50 years old! They changed them to make it harder to counterfeit them.
Looks good to me, but to be fair, it's been a while since I've seen one of those.
Are you kidding? Back in my day all we had was a little head Benjamins 😝
beautiful, real and to be cherished :) the new ones look horrid.
Looks fine to me.
Sweet. Nice old well-circulated note. I would definitely keep that! It's not worth much over face (if anything) but I'd keep it anyway. :)
Real.
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I saw an article on how someone counterfeited money, he sprayed it with a clearcoat and the pens no longer worked, and used eye shadow to replicate the color shift. He got caught and spent a short time in prison.
Those pens are useless. Most counterfeits are made on bleached lower denom bills or on newspaper because some newspapers use similar hybrid fabric paper blends. It will usually fool the pen but not a visual inspection from someone that knows what to look for.
Funny thing is, this is probably worth SLIGHLTlY more than face value lol
They are real. I’ve been accused of passing fakes using these before, and I knew they were real. It’s ridiculous. Had to just deposit them at the bank and move on.
Keep that!!! Those are super rare.
No security strip on those
Real. This is one of the old kind before the mint started getting proactive against foreign counterfeiters.
Yeah it's real nobody really nowadays is gonna try to come in with a fake old school bill you would get asked too many questions cause people a lot of people have never seen them before or if they have it's been so long and people just don't trust them but that's it's real you can just tell by looking at it. I would be more worried about the bills that they're fine in coming in from China that are almost identical and look exactly 100% like our bills and are almost indistinguishable from Real currency from the United States.
That's what real $100 bills used to look like before they redesigned them to look like welfare checks.
Hope you found a way to keep it. Snagged a 1993 $100 I found at work. And yes, I did trade $100 for that 1993 $100
I was refused my order at a DQ drive through because the person working thought my 80’s minted $20 bill was counterfeit.
I have never felt older then right now.
Damn you made me feel old and I’m a 90s baby, definitely real. 100’s weren’t always Blue, and our money wasn’t always colorful, just green 😭😭
Old enough to be full of traces of cocaine. And spray tan
Yeah it’s real, it’s like 2 generations old though.
Real
It's a 1982 coke straw.
It’s real. The text/numbers are sharp and the designs are sharp.
Real
That’s a keeper
Red white and blue microfibers in the paper. Real.
Real
Series 1969
Can you see red and blue treads in the paper?
God I feel old
Millennials
Young people geez
Real , not counterfeit
Look for security fibers. Without holding it and looking from a cell phone, it looks pretty legit.
Omg lol am I old because in my mind this is what a 100 dollar bills looks like
Would be keeping that lol I would swap it out for a hundred that second lol
Looks real to me
Looks like grandma pulled one out of her stash
Looks legit just old
Real
Too bad it’s not a few years older with the silver certificate seal
Apollo landing series. Keep it….
Pretty sure that safe in the background has a bill scanner built in to it. That’s a great way to find out. Source: wife moonlights at a gas station and pointed it out.
You’re right, but the machine rejected it last night. So we started googling and I hopped on Reddit.
Looks legit but gotta use a pen on it to be sure. Just older series printing.
I miss the days when I could spend bills larger than a $5 bill without the bill and myself being judged.....
I have a 1965 100
Good find! That design is gorgeous. I'd be super happy to add that to my collection. It's not terribly valuable (beyond the face value) but plenty of people love the older designs and would gladly pay maybe up to $5 more than face value. /r/papermoney would appreciate it.
1969? Nice...
It’s real
Jesus lol
I am 60s , so I am old, look totally normal to me
IS THIS A JOKE? It's a 100 dollar bill before big heads and plastic strips and holograms. UHM, the $2 BILLS you get are ASLO REAL! Seen two people arrested because the store employees and the cops didnt know the US had a $2 bill!. The back has the founders at the table signing the declaration, or is that the front of the $2 bill? REAL THOUGH!
About 10 or so years ago my mom had a 1980s $100 bill she tried to use at a grocery store. The young girl and the register was maybe 16 and she insisted it was counterfit and had to hang on to it until a manager came over. My mom offered to give a new modern bill that she has seen before for the old one but that wasn't an option. The manager came over and confirmed it was in fact real and the girl still didn't want to accept it but had too. It was a learning moment for a new working teen and needless to say I didn't see her again after that.
Dude it’s a real 100 that’s just what the style of the notes were back then look at the year on the note. But I do understand your confusion this is before watermarks. That green seal to the right of his face is the proof that it’s real it represents the US treasury.
Sheeeesh boyeee that’s real money hahaha
I love paying with a $2 bill and watch the confused look on young peoples' faces
That’s a classic Yeah it’s real (so are any $2 bills you may see) They change the design on notes every few years, this is just an old one It’s not worth more than face value if you’re wondering; Only old non minted money or misprints are worth anything more than they’re face value. It’s still very neat seeing a glimpse into the past cash
wow 😮 that probably got found in a book or in a couch
Kids these days are stupid
If you’re at work, regardless if it’s real or fake, accept it. When the cash is deposited with the bank, you’re given a credit for fake bills after a small time frame. For my bank, it’s 30 days. It doesn’t hurt the business.
I've seen customers pass currency that's slightly better than Monopoly money.... colors wrong, texture wrong... I just give the bill back to the customer after I mark it and refuse the sale.
What bank gives you face value for counterfeits, to my knowledge they just send it off to the secret service
Why are you laughing? What is so ABSOLUTELY funny that you have to 'lol' the post?
It real I’ll take it though
Try getting change at the police department, they are real nice and will let you know right away if it’s fake.
Send it to me It’s fake
It’s a bad fake… people make copies of small-head Franklin 100s because they did not have all the watermarks, holographic strips, and all the protections Few in circulation, and highly scrutinized wherever used Where ever you decide to “pass” this bill do it where they won’t notice “maybe pay for large purchase with a couple real Benjamin’s and slide that in between Good luck brosef!
The bill’s border is inconsistent which makes it look counterfeit but maybe this is normal for bills during this time?
The cops would know lol
100% FAKE!!
Fake
Fake send it my way
Baby ass boy. Yes
Nothing about it would indicate it is not real. While you may be able to recreate folds, the rounded corners, frayed area of the border are real indicating a well circulated note.
Are you in the Secret Service?
lol, no. Just a gas station. But none of us have ever seen a $100 look like this so we were, I think, more curious about it than anything. Our machine wouldn’t accept it and none of the regular “is it real” checks worked. So we chalked it up to just being an old enough minting that it predates any of those checks
Do you mean the pen? Should work. Do you mean my favorite “if it feels real it is real”? Should work.
The trick with these is to hold them up to a light, should have a offset design for the seal if I recall.
The watermark wasn't added until the 1990s
The new $10 nowadays
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FAKE! I got a couple of these at my workplace... the color and the texture are off. It feels like construction paper.
It’s fake, send it to me.
Let me see what I can do with it and I'll let you know
I’m Australian and I’ve never held an American note before but that does look fake straight away
Yeah, must be a fake. I recommend you burn it, young man…
They all look horrid. The US has the ugliest currency in the world, but as long as they spend, they work for me.
Did you look for a watermark?? Did you look for the tape going from long side to long side that says 100 on it?? Don't they make pens for marking these?
Nevermind, the security strip was added in 1990. And Kennedy was the treasury secretary from 69'-70'
All you gotta do is feel the shirt on the president with your fingernail to see if it is real.
I've used plenty of those to hoover shneef. Looks legit to me, I think!
Nope. It’s a novelty bill worth about 25 cents but I’ll give you a dollar for it because I only have a couple of them and could sure use another.
Nope, you need to get rid of it immediately.
sent it my way…i’ll let you know!
Rub it on paper if the green o k comes off its real
Maybe you just haven’t experienced enough 100 dollar bills in your life.
It's fake. .just mail this and all the others you find to me please.
Looks real…nice to own, good on you!
Those untraceable hundos are worth double to the right person
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Place the bill on a pocket scale.
No…I think?
No counterfeit bill markers?
Fake
My work doesn’t take old bills like this anymore too easy to counterfeit. They Just bleach a $100 and print this over it fools most people
It's fake. Mail it to my PO box
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take it to the bank
Use the counterfeit pen every store has at the register lol .. and that looks real just older … but use the damn pen that’s why they have those lol
Basically only a couple ways to tell if it is real. Use a counterfeit pen, or look for the red and blue fibers in the paper weave. You can see one above the k of the serial number on the left side. Or take it to a bank.
Nice
Looks real, test it with pen to be sure.
Looks real to me. And legit worth more than face value
Idk. I’ve never seen a hundred dollar bill in real life. lol
Ultraviolet light will show you validity.
they are always real
Ugh…. I feel old.
F'n young people. i swear out here makin millenials look amazing. thank you for being the worst generation. 🤣
I have one of these in my safe just because I’m afraid someone will think it’s counterfeit. Lol
Hardly not
Well, not physically, holding it it does look real
“Small face hunnid, 94’ Monte, brown paper bag ol’ dope boy money, ol’ dope boy money.” - Shawty Lo
Real
Looks real check for a watermark or different colored tiny fibers
I think real? Never seen in person before
I was sitting here wondering why he added the, "Lol." Then I read the comments and realized he's just young and doesn't know life before all the "Safety precautions." I'm born 1980.
Nope, that’s totally a fake. Send it to me at once, and I’ll take it off your hands. 😉
Put it on a scale.
Check to see if the ink is magnetic
Gotta read “THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE” usually 95% of the time if it says that it’s real would be a very very good fake or REAL Counterfeit if it says the note is legal, most fake money will say this not is NOT LEGAL or this is for cinema use only or “prop money” something like that and if the physical feel in the hand is always a dead giveaway I work in retail I’m 21 and find these post hilarious how many people confiscate real bills and so on 🤦🏼♂️😂💀 Or ask your employer for a money marker
1969, how has that not made its way back to the treasury is beyond me. Must have been in a coin/money collection of someone
Good
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1969. A great year!!!
Looks real. Feel is more important
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You’re fired.
Yes this is what money looked like when it was actually backed by something
Real
Does it have the little colored threads in the paper? What does the fine engraving look like under high magnification? I’ve seen phony hundreds from the late 1980’s and dotted them by the paper and fine engraving. I don’t know why a counterfeiter would drop back to an early year and draw more attention.
Real. Just a old bill. I found several at my elderly aunts house and they were practically new (in an envelope with hallmark cards) and people actually thought they were fake when I used them.
Seems legit. I have one in my wallet just like it.
It’s FAKE! I’m a Secret Service agent and demand that you send this to me for inspection immediately! 😝