What would you do?

[Rider77]

I read the comments, and I have to admit they are all over the spectrum. I did what several of you did and jumped on the computer to see what I could learn. I have to tell you that this was a small town bank and I doubt they ever encountered any counterfeit currency, or not enough to be skilled in testing it.


So here is a photo of the characters I noticed on the bill. Pretty obvious to the naked eye. When investigating this on the Web the closest match I found had the characters in a single row, I didn't try to compare for similarity of the actual characters. The comment on that example said that it was stage money which seemed plausable. I certainly have no intention of trying to spend it, I just find it to be an interesting novelty.

Thanks for all the interesting comments on it.

 

[Fritz]

i put this into the google lens and this is what it brought up:
search for money

probably why they didn't come looking for it.

 

[Trish]

I read the comments, and I have to admit they are all over the spectrum. I did what several of you did and jumped on the computer to see what I could learn. I have to tell you that this was a small town bank and I doubt they ever encountered any counterfeit currency, or not enough to be skilled in testing it.

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So here is a photo of the characters I noticed on the bill. Pretty obvious to the naked eye. When investigating this on the Web the closest match I found had the characters in a single row, I didn't try to compare for similarity of the actual characters. The comment on that example said that it was stage money which seemed plausable. I certainly have no intention of trying to spend it, I just find it to be an interesting novelty.

Thanks for all the interesting comments on it.

Yes, this is what I found:

A US $100 bill with red Chinese writing is likely either a training note used in China for bank teller practice or a prop money note used in movies or other productions. These bills are not legal tender and are typically marked with Chinese characters indicating they are for practice or other non-monetary use.

 

[Michael Z]

I’d hold onto it another five years. Then take the money and treat yourself to a dinner at McDonalds.

 

[Beezer]

Fun story about currency-

Dad won a 5 dollar bet in the 1960's with a co-worker. For a joke, his colleague laminated a 5 dollar bill (rendering it useless) and gave it to my father.

Dad meets this very same individual 30 years later at a work retirement party and the man brings up the laminated bill story. Dad says, "I'll bet you another 5 I've got that laminated bill in my wallet in my back pocket."

Then Dad produced the bill...he had kept it in his wallet as a good luck charm for all of those decades. His friend was floored! I just got a bang out of this story when Dad told me about it.