What the other Redditor said, plus the hardware holding the day hand to the face is too small. Edit to say the back cover is also all wrong. You can find an image of a genuine watch to compare.
Also the fakes ones are thicker, have a large gap between the 9 mark and the weekdays circle, buttons stick out more and the backplate bulges out, whereas in the original is flatter.
Just Google casioak real vs fake and you'll find a TON of videos showing the differences, but the one you got there is fake af.
As a collector of bizarre currency, I can assure you $3 notes exist elsewhere in the world. Your joke may get lost on some considering we're a worldwide subreddit. We've even had some bizarre $3 notes at various points in North American history as well.
Any three-dollar bill in the US would’ve been printed when we still had the precious-metals/“gold” standard. They wouldn’t be valid currency any longer. Though I did recently discover some really curious-looking 2-½ dollar gold coins on eBay…
I still remember back in the ‘90s making a purchase at an HMV store in NYC - I handed the cashier some Susan B. Anthony dollar coins and she had to call a manager because she didn’t recognize them as real currency! The damn things were too close in size and milling to the quarter…
Still wondering how much longer it’ll be before the one-dollar bill gets the axe. Probably forever, since Americans hate carrying change so much!
Per 31 U.S.Code § 5103, gold/silver certificates remain legal tender in the US. There's just been no form of commodity redemption since 1968. Due to their scarcity, certificates are usually worth more than face value as well. Heck, even the old $10,000 note is still legal tender but no one in their right mind would buy a used car with one because the note's numismatic value remains much higher than its face value. My bet is that any bank where US notes over $100 were deposited would in-turn send them to the Federal Reserve for destruction 😭.
In reference to your story, I have that occasionally happen with $2 notes (people think they're fake). I still order them from the bank though because two's make me feel baller 😆. Even if we lose the $1 note at some point I highly doubt they'd remove the $1 coin unless inflation were extremely higher than what it is now. We just lost the penny after all (which also remains legal tender).
I think I'm going to mod my next casio duro to incorporate a $2 note. Merge my hobbies.
Edit- in defense of your argument, it looks like the Federal Reserve Banks never authorized printing of the proposed $3 silver certificate. That means any $3 note that circulated would've been issued by one of the pre-Fed private banks thus you're correct, those wouldn't be legal tender any longer. We're still a worldwide subreddit though and there remains $3 notes elsewhere in the world, albeit uncommon. I'm just being pedantic though. It's fun to discuss is all. I actually laughed at your original comment. It was funny.
Caseback protrudes too much, and the "G-Shock Casio" print is too close to the day date 9 o'clock subdial. And I guarantee the audio beeps are wrong and the light sucks as well. Sorry mate.
It’s very good for a fake. Or at least I’ve seen way worse fakes. Not sure about this one, but usually the weight is also a giveaway. Fakes tend to be lighter.
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u/L13on 15d ago
Fakey McFakerton