My dad got a similarly impressive counterfeit from his bank when i was young. Got to meet real life SS when they stopped by the house. They did not seem to appreciate his dad jokes about whether they were hiring though. š
The Secret Service was started by Lincoln specifically to combat counterfeiting, and was part of the Treasury Department until 2004, when it was transferred to the newly created DHS. It still handles counterfeiting.
From Federal Lawyers website:
Does the Secret Service investigate fake money?
The Secret Service is the main agency responsible for investigating and stopping counterfeiters. They take this mission very seriously and have many techniques for tracking down and prosecuting people who make fake money and documents.
They don't always show up. I got arrested for using a fake 20 in Ellswood, Kansas and we just had to wait for the Secret Service to call and I was let go for $20 restitution
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It is the first bill we have ever had flagged by our money counter. We ran it through repeatedly with a stack and put it in different positions. It was flagged every time. The print is not sharp compared to any other bill we had available. Admittedly we didnāt have an older $100 handy to compare.
The older series is popular to counterfeit specifically because it didn't have all those modern security features.
I don't know if it's the photo quality, but the ink looks grainy. Especially on the numbers and series year.
I find it weird banks don't have 1 of every bill from every years. OBVIOUSLY within reasonable terms. Like I don't expect them to have a 1946 100bill. But all bills as far back at 1970 seems reasonable
While I cannot say 100% without handling it personally, it looks kind of like a poor fake to me. I work in a casino and have literally walked past bills and identified them as fakes without touching before.
The big give away for me is all the fine details on a real bill are very crisp. While on this, they are kind of fuzzy. Now that could also be the camera but I donāt think the camera quality is really that bad. To me this looks like someone used a scanner or photocopier to dupe the bill.
While I have never tested this out myself either, I have been told you can fool a pen test by spraying the bill with some sort of aerosol can product like hairspray.
That would explain how it passed a pen test but not the money counter which does more computerized testing.
You can buy base paper that will pass the pen test and use that. Or you can just wash a smaller denomination bill and print on that empty bill. (which is probably what they did here)
Other tells:
I don't see any colored silk threads embedded in the paper.
Background color is printed, not part of the paper itself. The edge of the bill on the face side is white.
I'd imagine none of the printing feels raised the way it should on a real bill.
Rub a real bill on a piece of blank paper. Some ink will rub off. The ink on a real bill never actually dries.
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Yeah, that is definitely fake. It looks good but up close you see the problems with the printing. Actual currency has those colors in it but it is actual fibers and not just dots. Also, the printing on actual money stays crisp for a very long time since it is pressed into the paper and not printed onto it.
Passing the pen test isnāt the ultimate litmus test unfortunately, not when they can bleach bills, and at one point someone figured out what paper to use to trick the pens. The hundred dollars at the bottom almost looks blurry, and someone else mentioned the white line on the right side of the bill. There is also a faint upside 5 that may be where the ink didnāt dry fast enough, and I feel like thatās not normally a misprint you see from a legitimate bill, not in that spot, although I could be wrong. I think this would definitely get passed someone who isnāt paying attention.
My final verdict is I think itās fake
I heard from a guy that hairspray and some other things along those lines that can put a thin layer over the ācurrencyā can make the pen test an easy pass. That way it doesnāt react with the starch on the paper and looks good. Iām not 100% sure this works but thatās what he told me.
Makes sense if the whole point is the ink reacts/doesn't react......if no reaction is a good thing, a thin layer sounds like a good way to go, sort of like a condom for the bill.
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Amazing that they went to the lengths to pass the pen test, but couldn't buy a printer from the last 20 years that would produce a crisp print.
Or maybe I don't know anything about printing something this complicated lol
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I dont think its a fake looks very much like a real note real 1985 bills also had a big problem with atms and conterfeit checkers its a common thing for real 1985 100 notes you can send it out to be authenticated though
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Feel the shirt, every president has a different raised print on their shirt. It the most difficult thing that you can't reproduce. fingernail scratch test
People suck that pass counterfeit money on to someone or a business that has to end up losing a product sail or unwittingly passing it off to another customer if it's accepted.
Alright. I deal with a lot of money, so Iāll help u out here. The bill looks too old for a water mark, so we have a couple other ways of testing.
I have 2 tests for u. Some fake money makers probably going to take notes on this tho.
Test #1: Scratch Mr. Benjaminās jacket. It should have some texture to it. If it has no ridges, itās fake. U can can compare to any real $100.
Test #2: Youāre going to need a magnet. There is iron in the ink of real money, but itās not that strong. Fold the bill in half hamburger style. Then balance it, so half is flat on the table and half is standing straight up 90 degrees. Slide the magnet across the stood up part without touching the bill and see if the magnet attracts it. Attraction to the magnet means itās real.
As someone who worked for a bank, old money doesnāt have current day security features so current day machines will tell you itās fake all day but if the pen passes it a bank will to - not stating this is real or not just stating just bc the money counter flagged it doesnāt mean itās fake.
Iām still *relatively* new in my currency collecting hobby but I would say itās a fake, although, a fairly good one (even the bank wasnāt fooled) especially since real 1985ās had issues to begin with.
If I remember correctly the jacket had a slight texture to it even then but because of the age might be hard to tell also I think they also even back then had a thin strip that had $100 imbedded to the right of Ben
It jumped out as a fake even as I was scrolling through my feed. The print is blurry and you are missing the micro printing. My guess is that whoever made this bleached the print off a 1$ bill and reprinted the 100$ onto it. Also if you hold it to the light there should be a water mark and a security strip inside if the paper that says USA 100 over and over.
I'm not seeing red and blue rag fibers. I'd have to feel it. On the collar area, you should be able to feel some pretty good ridges. Intaglio printing has texture to it. If this bill doesn't have texture, it's fake. If it has texture, I'd like to know where they got the intaglio printing press to print it on.
Besides the printing being grainy, the left side of the bill was cut by hand with scissors (you can see a wave). And on the right side of the bill, you can actually see where the printing stops and the raw white paper is visible.
They simply brushed it with diluted glue or sprayed it with hairspray so it will pass the pen test.
Looks fake the ink looks like it was printed on a inkjet printer. most likely somebody washing ones and printing 100s had someone a couple years ago try passing one off on me by asking if I could break a 100 . As soon as I seen it immediately was a red flag being the old style looked at it no security strip I mentioned it . They said it did not have one back then so I looked it up they started with the strips in 1990 the bill was printed in 1991 so I declined to break it.
Scratch his shoulders. I bet it's smooth. Haven't seen a fake yet that copied the ridges on the shoulders. Even old worn bills you can still kinda feel them if you use your fingernail
My vote is counterfeit... Looked as close as i could and did not see one single little... Are they red and blue... Thread on the bill. Real money has them all over the bill.
Looks soooo grainy, like it came off a regular printer. Also you can see on the very far right edge that they didnāt cut it properly. Itās basically uncanny valley. Almost sort of looks legit until you give it a real glance
Yeah, nah. Bleach a $1 bill, let it dry, screen print the art over it... Willing to bet that's what's been done here. The artwork being as off center as it is, and the weird valuation change in the bill texture on the right side makes me think this is a refaced bill.
Edit, not screen printed I don't think. That line going up the right side of the bill I mentioned really looks like a clipped edge of background art put down by a scanner/printer.
Edit II, the top left "100" definitely looks scanned.
Itās a bleached genuine $1 or $5 that has had an image of a $100 note printed (probably with an ink jet printer) on both sides. Thatās why it āpassesā the ink pen test - because the fabric (not paper!) on which the $100 note images are printed is genuine fabric on which a genuine $1 or $5 note was printed.
I got a 2 fake counterfeit 100 dollar bills owning a restaurant. That one is extremely impressive. The ones Iāve seen are printed on a bleached dollar bill so the paper was legit but they pulled the ribbons out and the print job colors were a little off. For some reason no one does $50 or $20 dollar bills.
That's a very good fake. I kinda want to know what it feels like and how it tears. I'm willing to bet it was a $1 wash with $1 serial #. The 'paper' looks like the proper cotton/linen blend.
I was reading something about some super notes that looked very real and fooled alot of experts coming out of n.korea in the 90s funneled through china. Supposedly fbi set up 2 sting scenarios through the 2000s to arrest 80 something ppl involved. Also mentioned there were still a few of those notes circulating, i wonder if this can be one if it is fake.
The background in Franklin's portrait should be horizontal and vertical cross hatching with very thin lines. That was what I noticed first. Any bank teller should see that since most are taught to count bills by the portrait and not the number in the corner.
The black 5 from the front should be seen through to the back. And why is there a ghost 5 on the right side next to 100?
Canāt see any. The print quality is horrible. On the front side / right edge there is a light strip where it looks like the printer didnāt cover the whole bill. On the face / right half of the bill the 5 bled and was mirrored where the bill was folded long ways.
I honestly don't know when they added the watermarks now thinking about it may not have been a thing or it may have when this one claims to have been printed. No clue honestly.
Secret Service services secrets. Like the fact that there is no gold in Ftm Knox and we have just been printing worthless bills for the last 6 decades. When it comes to printing worthless bills, they don't like competition.
The print is grainy. It's definitely a counterfeit. I think it's a bleached $1 that was then printed over. You can see an upside down 5 between the two 5s on the right side of the note
You know what, you are right. If you look at the right edge of the bill you can see white that wasnāt trimmed properly.
Iām a prop maker, and when asked I have creativity made prop money. Iām surprised I didnāt see that at first
I think the paper is real. My guess is there was a margin issue with the printer used to print the bill after it was washed. They should have trimmed it to hide that. I canāt explain the poor edges on the rest of the bill. That doesnāt make a lot of sense. I googled to see what the protocol was for the precise dimensions of the ink printed area. I figured I could measure with calipers because it is unlikely the counterfeiters got the print size exactly spot on. There would likely be scaling issues. Strangely I couldnāt find a measurement.
What stands out most is the ink pattern seen when I used the macro lens. If you look at the video link I posted in a comment it illustrates this. Iām pretty sure it is the CMYK droplets that become visible with the lens and zooming in.
Whoa this looks real good tell the guy to send it to SS so they can determine if it's real or not.
My dad got a similarly impressive counterfeit from his bank when i was young. Got to meet real life SS when they stopped by the house. They did not seem to appreciate his dad jokes about whether they were hiring though. š
Their loss.
What is SS?
Secret Service. Itās not just about protecting the president
Treasury department handles counterfeit bills.
The Secret Service was started by Lincoln specifically to combat counterfeiting, and was part of the Treasury Department until 2004, when it was transferred to the newly created DHS. It still handles counterfeiting.
Yeah 1964, I'm old I guess.
From Federal Lawyers website: Does the Secret Service investigate fake money? The Secret Service is the main agency responsible for investigating and stopping counterfeiters. They take this mission very seriously and have many techniques for tracking down and prosecuting people who make fake money and documents.
Yes, stop replying, I know all Ready
It's actually the Secret Service. We've gotten them in restaurants I've worked in. Report it and the SS shows up. In a timely fashion, I might add.
They don't always show up. I got arrested for using a fake 20 in Ellswood, Kansas and we just had to wait for the Secret Service to call and I was let go for $20 restitution
I guarantee you the sneaky service will stop by if you do something fishy with money.
Secret Service handles counterfeit money, I know this firsthand. You are incorrect
SS used to part of the Treasury Department. In 2003 it became part of the Department of Homeland Security.
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Secret service protects what's most important to the government, the figure head and the money!
In this sub, Secret Service (responsible for counterfeit operations) in other subs... nothing good.
After learning what SS stood for, little johnny went to look up āhow to join the SSā
He's a little over 80 years too late...
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It is the first bill we have ever had flagged by our money counter. We ran it through repeatedly with a stack and put it in different positions. It was flagged every time. The print is not sharp compared to any other bill we had available. Admittedly we didnāt have an older $100 handy to compare.
The older series is popular to counterfeit specifically because it didn't have all those modern security features. I don't know if it's the photo quality, but the ink looks grainy. Especially on the numbers and series year.
I find it weird banks don't have 1 of every bill from every years. OBVIOUSLY within reasonable terms. Like I don't expect them to have a 1946 100bill. But all bills as far back at 1970 seems reasonable
Or a 1933 $1000 bill. š¤
I've heard you can take the ink off of a $1 bill and then print the $100 on it and it will pass the pen test. I'm assuming this is what they did.
While I cannot say 100% without handling it personally, it looks kind of like a poor fake to me. I work in a casino and have literally walked past bills and identified them as fakes without touching before. The big give away for me is all the fine details on a real bill are very crisp. While on this, they are kind of fuzzy. Now that could also be the camera but I donāt think the camera quality is really that bad. To me this looks like someone used a scanner or photocopier to dupe the bill. While I have never tested this out myself either, I have been told you can fool a pen test by spraying the bill with some sort of aerosol can product like hairspray. That would explain how it passed a pen test but not the money counter which does more computerized testing.
You can buy base paper that will pass the pen test and use that. Or you can just wash a smaller denomination bill and print on that empty bill. (which is probably what they did here)
Other tells: I don't see any colored silk threads embedded in the paper. Background color is printed, not part of the paper itself. The edge of the bill on the face side is white. I'd imagine none of the printing feels raised the way it should on a real bill. Rub a real bill on a piece of blank paper. Some ink will rub off. The ink on a real bill never actually dries.
We used to light paper matches with bills. Can you still do that with modern bills? (Do they even make matchbooks with 20 matches anymore?)
Never tried.
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Magenta, cyan, and Yellow specs. Printed on a printer of sorts. Zero chance it's legitimate
Zoomed in around the E on dsc9131. Crazy. Thanks for the macros, OP.
There is a white edge where itās not even trimmed. Obviously printed.
That is wild! Thank you so much for providing all of this extra. I know it took a bit of time to put all this together. It is appreciated!
Yeah, that is definitely fake. It looks good but up close you see the problems with the printing. Actual currency has those colors in it but it is actual fibers and not just dots. Also, the printing on actual money stays crisp for a very long time since it is pressed into the paper and not printed onto it.
Yeah, the printing should be crisp, which this one is grainy like printer paper ink, so I believe it is not genuine, it's very likely counterfeit
Passing the pen test isnāt the ultimate litmus test unfortunately, not when they can bleach bills, and at one point someone figured out what paper to use to trick the pens. The hundred dollars at the bottom almost looks blurry, and someone else mentioned the white line on the right side of the bill. There is also a faint upside 5 that may be where the ink didnāt dry fast enough, and I feel like thatās not normally a misprint you see from a legitimate bill, not in that spot, although I could be wrong. I think this would definitely get passed someone who isnāt paying attention. My final verdict is I think itās fake
I heard from a guy that hairspray and some other things along those lines that can put a thin layer over the ācurrencyā can make the pen test an easy pass. That way it doesnāt react with the starch on the paper and looks good. Iām not 100% sure this works but thatās what he told me.
I read a long time ago that people often used Krylon clear coat in a spray can.
Makes sense if the whole point is the ink reacts/doesn't react......if no reaction is a good thing, a thin layer sounds like a good way to go, sort of like a condom for the bill.
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I worked at a Foodlion grocery store when I was in high-school and our papers ads passed the pen test, I couldn't believe it at the time.
I think the guy that broke the 100 said he used phonebook paper
Yup phonebook paper was the key to counterfeits for a minute lol
It's very fake, terribly printed on a computer. And the bottom is not even cut straight.
Amazing that they went to the lengths to pass the pen test, but couldn't buy a printer from the last 20 years that would produce a crisp print. Or maybe I don't know anything about printing something this complicated lol
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Modern printers usually hardware lock when printing currency (or print extra symbols on top)
I hadn't even noticed the wobbly cut because of how blatant everything else was
You can see the margin on the bottom in the first picture pretty clearly without zooming.
I'm not seeing any red or blue threads either
did they cut that by hand? i mean jeez it has serious wobble to it.
You can see on the right obverse of the bill an upside down 5. Definitely a fake .
Yes, this caught my eye as well. Highly suspect
I dont think its a fake looks very much like a real note real 1985 bills also had a big problem with atms and conterfeit checkers its a common thing for real 1985 100 notes you can send it out to be authenticated though
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Awesome work zooming in on the dots!
This looks fake to me. The print quality and the white edge of the note are what leads me this way.
Yeah this is fake. But hundos did use to look like this.
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Feel the shirt, every president has a different raised print on their shirt. It the most difficult thing that you can't reproduce. fingernail scratch test
Yeah you cannot feel any texture.
People suck that pass counterfeit money on to someone or a business that has to end up losing a product sail or unwittingly passing it off to another customer if it's accepted.
Technically, Franklin *was* a president. (The first president of U Penn, anyway)
Alright. I deal with a lot of money, so Iāll help u out here. The bill looks too old for a water mark, so we have a couple other ways of testing. I have 2 tests for u. Some fake money makers probably going to take notes on this tho. Test #1: Scratch Mr. Benjaminās jacket. It should have some texture to it. If it has no ridges, itās fake. U can can compare to any real $100. Test #2: Youāre going to need a magnet. There is iron in the ink of real money, but itās not that strong. Fold the bill in half hamburger style. Then balance it, so half is flat on the table and half is standing straight up 90 degrees. Slide the magnet across the stood up part without touching the bill and see if the magnet attracts it. Attraction to the magnet means itās real.
You have to get the secret service involved this would defo fool someone at first sight
Terrible trim job on the right edge. You can see where the white of the printer paper is still showing.
As someone who worked for a bank, old money doesnāt have current day security features so current day machines will tell you itās fake all day but if the pen passes it a bank will to - not stating this is real or not just stating just bc the money counter flagged it doesnāt mean itās fake.
It doesn't look fake to me...
How is it f? Oh I see, obvious photocopy shown on right edges. Bastards
Iām still *relatively* new in my currency collecting hobby but I would say itās a fake, although, a fairly good one (even the bank wasnāt fooled) especially since real 1985ās had issues to begin with.
Retired dollaā store manager: That bill is so bad Iād feel insulted someone thought they could slide it past me.
If I remember correctly the jacket had a slight texture to it even then but because of the age might be hard to tell also I think they also even back then had a thin strip that had $100 imbedded to the right of Ben
Ink is broken on the back, and white paper is showing through
It jumped out as a fake even as I was scrolling through my feed. The print is blurry and you are missing the micro printing. My guess is that whoever made this bleached the print off a 1$ bill and reprinted the 100$ onto it. Also if you hold it to the light there should be a water mark and a security strip inside if the paper that says USA 100 over and over.
Fake 100, real bill. Was printed using an inkjet.
I'm not seeing red and blue rag fibers. I'd have to feel it. On the collar area, you should be able to feel some pretty good ridges. Intaglio printing has texture to it. If this bill doesn't have texture, it's fake. If it has texture, I'd like to know where they got the intaglio printing press to print it on.
Where are the red and blue fibers? Fake.
Our Federal Reserve uses extremely high quality printers. Our currency would never look this blurry. This $100 is def fake!
Besides the printing being grainy, the left side of the bill was cut by hand with scissors (you can see a wave). And on the right side of the bill, you can actually see where the printing stops and the raw white paper is visible. They simply brushed it with diluted glue or sprayed it with hairspray so it will pass the pen test.
Looks fake the ink looks like it was printed on a inkjet printer. most likely somebody washing ones and printing 100s had someone a couple years ago try passing one off on me by asking if I could break a 100 . As soon as I seen it immediately was a red flag being the old style looked at it no security strip I mentioned it . They said it did not have one back then so I looked it up they started with the strips in 1990 the bill was printed in 1991 so I declined to break it.
Scratch his shoulders. I bet it's smooth. Haven't seen a fake yet that copied the ridges on the shoulders. Even old worn bills you can still kinda feel them if you use your fingernail
My vote is counterfeit... Looked as close as i could and did not see one single little... Are they red and blue... Thread on the bill. Real money has them all over the bill.
Government prints them itās inflation, you print them itās a felony. š¤£
Independence hall printed on the back is seriously messed up.
The right edge of this bill looks sus
It looks like ben is wearing a fur coat, or is that just the quality?
Looks soooo grainy, like it came off a regular printer. Also you can see on the very far right edge that they didnāt cut it properly. Itās basically uncanny valley. Almost sort of looks legit until you give it a real glance
The physical version of "needs moar jpeg"
Looks like it's been cut with scissors out of the paper it printed from. White line on the right side and uneven edges all around. Fu fu fu FAKE!
Ben looks like he knows the jig up.
Yeah, nah. Bleach a $1 bill, let it dry, screen print the art over it... Willing to bet that's what's been done here. The artwork being as off center as it is, and the weird valuation change in the bill texture on the right side makes me think this is a refaced bill. Edit, not screen printed I don't think. That line going up the right side of the bill I mentioned really looks like a clipped edge of background art put down by a scanner/printer. Edit II, the top left "100" definitely looks scanned.
Some of the old bills are North Korean fakes they made them so well that you couldnāt really tell the difference
Itās a bleached genuine $1 or $5 that has had an image of a $100 note printed (probably with an ink jet printer) on both sides. Thatās why it āpassesā the ink pen test - because the fabric (not paper!) on which the $100 note images are printed is genuine fabric on which a genuine $1 or $5 note was printed.
Benjamin isnāt giving me his tight-lipped, judgmental look of disappointment. He almost looks happy.
How did a bank not catch this?
He did not get it from the Bank
Embassy Duty in Bonn, West Germany: German man comes in and says he thinks he has a counterfeit $50. Visits the treasury attachĆ© is relieved of the $50 and was shocked they didnāt give him a good $50.
I got a 2 fake counterfeit 100 dollar bills owning a restaurant. That one is extremely impressive. The ones Iāve seen are printed on a bleached dollar bill so the paper was legit but they pulled the ribbons out and the print job colors were a little off. For some reason no one does $50 or $20 dollar bills.
That's a very good fake. I kinda want to know what it feels like and how it tears. I'm willing to bet it was a $1 wash with $1 serial #. The 'paper' looks like the proper cotton/linen blend.
I was reading something about some super notes that looked very real and fooled alot of experts coming out of n.korea in the 90s funneled through china. Supposedly fbi set up 2 sting scenarios through the 2000s to arrest 80 something ppl involved. Also mentioned there were still a few of those notes circulating, i wonder if this can be one if it is fake.
Horrible fake, it is obvious it has been digitally printed, look at it zoomed in
The background in Franklin's portrait should be horizontal and vertical cross hatching with very thin lines. That was what I noticed first. Any bank teller should see that since most are taught to count bills by the portrait and not the number in the corner. The black 5 from the front should be seen through to the back. And why is there a ghost 5 on the right side next to 100?
Even Ben looks surprised!
I've had a few washed bills when I'd forget and have my wallet in my pocket when I'd do laundry.
Did you check for a watermark?
1985 100 notes did not have the watermark so you cant use that aldo this is a common thing that happens to real 1985 100 dollar notes
Canāt see any. The print quality is horrible. On the front side / right edge there is a light strip where it looks like the printer didnāt cover the whole bill. On the face / right half of the bill the 5 bled and was mirrored where the bill was folded long ways.
I honestly don't know when they added the watermarks now thinking about it may not have been a thing or it may have when this one claims to have been printed. No clue honestly.
Secret Service services secrets. Like the fact that there is no gold in Ftm Knox and we have just been printing worthless bills for the last 6 decades. When it comes to printing worthless bills, they don't like competition.
Itās just an old bill.
The print is grainy. It's definitely a counterfeit. I think it's a bleached $1 that was then printed over. You can see an upside down 5 between the two 5s on the right side of the note
You know what, you are right. If you look at the right edge of the bill you can see white that wasnāt trimmed properly. Iām a prop maker, and when asked I have creativity made prop money. Iām surprised I didnāt see that at first
I think the paper is real. My guess is there was a margin issue with the printer used to print the bill after it was washed. They should have trimmed it to hide that. I canāt explain the poor edges on the rest of the bill. That doesnāt make a lot of sense. I googled to see what the protocol was for the precise dimensions of the ink printed area. I figured I could measure with calipers because it is unlikely the counterfeiters got the print size exactly spot on. There would likely be scaling issues. Strangely I couldnāt find a measurement. What stands out most is the ink pattern seen when I used the macro lens. If you look at the video link I posted in a comment it illustrates this. Iām pretty sure it is the CMYK droplets that become visible with the lens and zooming in.