please artist friends who sells prints at anime conventions: please buy yourself counterfeit detect pens because my friend just got fake bills (and I heard some few other artists did get fake bills too) so do yourself a favor and buy them….thank you
an addition:
counterfeit U.S. hundreds are often made from doctored tens. a counterfeit pen will not detect the fake hundred is fake because it’s technically a real bill, just doctored.
the quickest, most reliable way is to hold the bill up to the light and see if the watermark matches the face on the bill (should be to the right). with the new hundreds you can just kinda wiggle ‘em, the blue line will have little digits that wiggle. if those are stationary it’s fake.
here’s a link to the united states secret service website on more ways to detect fake bills
tl;dr counterfeit pens aren’t reliable
P.S. some people will use hundred dollar bills to case a business or seller to see if you have the money to break it. it’s a good idea to have a minimum purchase to break a hundred or a fifty to prevent being robbed later.
Canadian money is plastic and it smells like maple syrup, so drop a bit of water on the bill and sniff it.
australian money has a handful of different ways too, there’s the clear window down the corner, if you hold the note at certain angles, the australian crest thing with the kangaroo and emu should show up, there’s a little circle with a couple of diamonds that should form a star when held to the light, the numbers are slightly raised, idk there are a bunch of different ways
This is super important for anyone who handles money regularly, including people doing classifieds/craigslist sales locally!! There have been cases of people buying from someone off craigslist and using counterfeit hundreds or even 20s. Learn how to discern real money from counterfeit! We were taught to rely on this over counterfeit pens at a retail job I worked at briefly, even.
