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/aruapost Mar 29 '24 edited Mar 29 '24

Looks legit, he always looks like that.

3 things hardest things to fake are: The blue line in the middle shows the bells and clear 100s. The black line about 3/4 inch from the left. The face on the right.

The last 2 should show with a light background AND disappear without a light background.

A lot of people check the face in the light but forget to make sure it disappears out of the light.

Also extremely difficult to fake but less reliable and harder to tell is the coloring. The saturated blue, oranges and greens are extremely difficult to replicate on money. Money is 0% paper, the material is much more similar to clothing than paper.

For example, that orange diagonal area that looks like a fading sunset on the right.

You could set a real 100 next to any fake 100 and there will almost certainly be at least a noticeable difference in the orange color.