How To Check If 100 Naira Centenary Note Is Original With Phone

Do you know that you can easily check if the new 100 Naira Commemorative Centenary Banknote is original or fake? By making use of your smartphone, you can simply check the genuineness of this new one hundred Naira note. There are security features that came with the note. They will be absent on the fake because it would normally cost them more to put these features on the counterfeit copies.

The new note has features for the visually impaired and can easily adapt to machines and authentication devices. While announcing the launch date of the new note. the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele said the new note was designed with enhanced security to offer robust resistance against counterfeiting.

How to know if the new 100 Naira Commemorative Note is Original

I am going to group these features into two groups, (1) those you can see with your naked eyes and (2) those you can make use of your phone or other authentication devices to check.

The easily-detected 100 Naira Centenary Note Security Features

1. The front side of the note is a public authentication features, window micro-optics, showing the national flag and numeral 100 indicating the value of the denomination and the attainment of the centenary period.

2. The second is a spark feature of a rolling manila bar which was the instrument used during the slave trade era. A portrait of Chief Obafemi Awolowo is retained both in the ink, that is the interglow level, as a portrait and also in a paper as a shadow image.

The QR or Barcode feature to verify authenticity

1. At the backside of the Commemorative Centenary Banknote, the CBN introduced a feature called Quick Response Code (QRC). It is a feature that highlights and sources all the information about the centenary.

You don’t need to start looking for a QR Code scanner to check this. You can simply make use of your phone. What you need to do is to download a QRC scanner to your phone. Below are links for downloading the scanner.

Blackberry – Download Barcode scanner here
Android Phones- Download QR Code scanner
iOS (iPad, iPhones) – Download Barcode scanner for iOS
Windows mobile – Download QRC scanner for Windows

I am going to show you with the scanner I downloaded for my BBM.

1. Turn to the back of the N100 note
2. Look for the barcode somewhere on the left half of the note as shown in the image below.
3. Launch your QRC scanner and focus your camera on the barcode
4. It should scan it quickly and provide a link for you to click, open the link

You can also click the icon with the header “Open in Browser”.

This link will open on your browser with a page that contains all the information about the centenary. It starts with a picture of President Goodluck Jonathan, followed by a picture from the amalgamation day at Tinubu street, Lagos, Nigeria in 1914.

You will also see a picture of Prime Minister, Sir Tafawa Balewa with regional Premiers Chief Obafemi Awolowo- west, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe-east, Dr. Endeley- Southern Cameroon and Sir Ahmadu Bello- north in 1957.

Using the features listed here, you can tell if any Commemorative Centenary 100 Naira note is original or fake.