The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 48, November 25, 2007, Article 23

MONEY NOT COUNTERFEIT - IT'S JUST OLD

[Sometimes it's better to just collect old paper money than
try to spend it - a man in Indiana found that his old bills
being called counterfeit by unknowledgeable clerks. -Editor]

Bill Stamper withdrew three $20 bills from a Indianapolis
south side ATM Saturday night. He gave one of the bills
to his nephew.

Stamper says there was a problem when his nephew tried to
spend the bill.

"He used it the next day at Gas America and they said it
was no good it was counterfeit."

Turns out they weren't bogus, just old.

"The interesting part is that the years are 1950 and 1963
and fresh out of a bank ATM seemed a little unusual."

The pens used to check the validity of bills don't work
on currency that old.

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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