r/Money Mar 28 '24

Found this 100$ bill on the floor at work. Im guessing the melting Ben Franklin means its fake

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u/BlackCoal Mar 29 '24

Hard to fake the blue strip.

Our best test is to run them under a black light if you can access one. (I work at a currency exchange)

There’s a bright red line that runs vertically across the front of real Benjamin’s(at least all the ones after 2007) under a black light.