The Maryville Department of Public Safety received a report of a passed counterfeit bill over the weekend.

Obviously a fake, the bogus $20 note is apparently a prop of the sort used in movies and television shows.

The bill bears the likeness of a smiling Andrew Jackson along with the words "cinematic movie prop money, for motion picture use only" and "motion picture prop money" clearly displayed across the top and bottom.

According to the police, while the note appears phony even at a glance, it feels like the real thing and might easily pass as legal tender during a transaction in which it was included with, or hidden by, genuine bills.

Lt. Ron Christian said Tuesday that, so far as he knows, the prop-money twenty, passed at a local business, is the only reported counterfeit bill to surface locally over the past few days.

Late last month, the Associated Press filed a report about a $20 prop bill, similar to the one turned in locally, that was passed in Aliquippa, a city of 9,400 in western Pennsylvania.

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