Currency help! Is this $2 bill fake?

bsshog40

The currency forum seems to be a little slow. If posting this offends too many members, I will delete the post. So here goes.
I have about 3 dz $2 bills and I was looking thru them this evening. I have one that is a little strange. I've never seen one that started with 3 letters for the serial number and not a letter on the end. Also, the back is a different color from all the others I have. Has anyone seen one like this before? It has some chinese stamps on it also. Fake?? I have it pictured here with a normal $2 bill.

AUandAG

It appears to be a note made for cashiers to detect fakes. Not a real US note in my opinion.
I once saw a set for sale on ebay, $1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100.....was tempted to buy but did not.
bob:)

rte592

I don't know anything about them , but the black stripes across the denomination would indicate a fake ( or movie prop money)

bsshog40

The number fonts are different also comparing the 3, 2, 1 & 8.

bsshog40

@djm said:
The top one is definitely fake, just look at the serial number. What is LGQ Lesbian, Gay and Queer?

Try not to get my thread poofed please!

MarkKelley

Most assuredly fake.

ifthevamzarockin

Fake

rte592

@djm said:
The top one is definitely fake, just look at the serial number. What is LGQ Lesbian, Gay and Queer?

LGQ funny Money

bsshog40

So I actually found one on ebay with this description.
These were used in Asia to set up currency counting machines and to test them for functionality. Very rare to find and I haven't seen these listed for years. To be clear, this is not a genuine $2 Federal Reserve Note. It was printed in China with very high quality ink and paper.

Jzyskowski1

Very cool
Thanks for posting as once again, something I was not aware of and had never seen a picture of before.
Gotta love this place 😁

Glen2022

Chinese counter struck? Similar to trade dollars? LOL

ifthevamzarockin

Here is a couple more, made in China.

TurboSnail

To those who care, This is made in China and has simplified Chinese of

" Technic practicing voucher"
" Sample"
"Practicing only, Do not distribute"

bsshog40

I also just found a cool article on these.

https://www.mtairynews.com/news/69264/police-warn-of-money-with-chinese-writing

crazyhounddog

Looks fake

jacrispies

Certainly fake. These examples would be cool to examine in-hand to compare ink and paper quality with genuine notes.

Jimnight

Fake!

johnny9434

Bogus

ricko

Interesting... The fake $100 bill has the same serial number/letters as the $2 in the OP.... Cheers, RickO

BuffaloIronTail

@TurboSnail said:
To those who care, This is made in China and has simplified Chinese of

" Technic practicing voucher"
" Sample"
"Practicing only, Do not distribute"

Practicing??

For what? Future counterfeiting?

Pete

bsshog40

@jacrispies said:
Certainly fake. These examples would be cool to examine in-hand to compare ink and paper quality with genuine notes.

Besides the obvious differences, the paper feels just like a real one. Same size and even design all looks the same. Kind of scary how close they can get to our original currency.

Namvet69

Nothing coming out of China surprises me. It's important to shed light on whatever aberration is found by responsible collectors. IMO. Thanks for the info. Peace Roy

Sapyx

These notes are, ostensibly, used in China for training the bank tellers that handle the foreign exchange desk.

You obviously don't want to use real foreign hard cash for training purposes, as trainees might be tempted to steal them, and hide the theft under mis-counting. So the training notes are designed to resemble the real thing closely enough for training purposes, but be clearly marked as replicas so as not to cause confusion.

Ostensibly, they are the property of the bank, and aren't supposed to leave the bank premises.

Ostensibly.

In reality, these "bank training notes" are themselves heavily copied and distributed to anybody who wants some. You can probably buy a whole bundle of them from the street vendors, if you know where and when to look. It is not illegal to make a copy of a fake note. There are certainly far, far too many examples of these "training notes" on eBay and elsewhere to be explained away as the accidental or deliberate leakage of "legitimate" training notes.

davewesen

@BuffaloIronTail said:

@TurboSnail said:
To those who care, This is made in China and has simplified Chinese of

" Technic practicing voucher"
" Sample"
"Practicing only, Do not distribute"

Practicing??

Foe what? Future counterfeiting?

Pete

International cash exchange done at big banks and airports

bsshog40

This is funny. My wife use to be an Assett Protection Manager about 10 yrs ago with walmart. She use to look for coins and such for me when tellers would bring cash to her office. I showed her this $2 bill last night and she didn’t know it was fake either. She said most likely a cashier took it in and my wife just replaced it with two $1 bills to give to me. Lol

mr1931S

Counterfeit Currency Detector pen mark on it will tell you immediately if fake or genuine. Amber color-bill passes.Black/Brown-bill is suspect. Works like a charm.

bsshog40

@mr1931S said:
Counterfeit Currency Detector pen mark on it will tell you immediately if fake or genuine. Amber color-bill passes.Black/Brown-bill is suspect. Works like a charm.

Ya, I know they used them while she was there. I'm sure it just went past one of the cashiers. Probably didn't test it being a small bill. I'm actually surprised it wasn't tested as most of the younger gen have probably never seen a $2 bill. Lol

TurboSnail

@mr1931S said:
Counterfeit Currency Detector pen mark on it will tell you immediately if fake or genuine. Amber color-bill passes.Black/Brown-bill is suspect. Works like a charm.

That pen doesn't work. Try to mark on a bounty paper towel to find out. Back in the days, I used to run three retail store fronts near time square nyc. And some of the counterfeits were from bills that were marked by the pens first.

MasonG

Counterfeit detector pens can tell you if the paper is either linen/cotton or wood pulp based. It will not identify a counterfeit bill printed on the proper paper type.

ifthevamzarockin

@mr1931S said:
Counterfeit Currency Detector pen mark on it will tell you immediately if fake or genuine. Amber color-bill passes.Black/Brown-bill is suspect. Works like a charm.

The pens are not fool proof. You should learn how to detect a counterfeit with your eyes and education rather than relying on someone or something to tell you. You have already learned this lesson the hard way once, do you need to learn it again?

I can't tell you the exact method used but people will take a $5 and wash or bleach the ink off and then print a $100 on it.
It will pass the pen test because it is a genuine $5 note.
I have seen 2 of these $100's and one $50 that were done this way and fooled a retailer that only used a pen.

https://www.advocate-news.com/2015/02/05/counterfeiters-turn-5-bills-into-100-bills/

Bamaphil

After looking at the bills, and read all of the other post
I concur
FAKE

Batman23

As already stated, fake. The pink Chinese writing states this... so I read. These were available to buy on Amazon and a couple years ago we had a couple of the $100 bills spent around town before word got out.