Students selling choir tickets during lunch found what they thought was a counterfeit $10 bill.

“It was green instead of being the normal $10 green color, and it looked like it was cut wrong because the edges were too thick — usually on a normal bill the edges are cut thinner,” freshman Alexa Heseltine said.

Heseltine was looking through the stack of $10 bills from the ticket sales, when she noticed a 10 that looked different than the rest. She then took it to choir director Tyler Morris, who then proceeded to take it to the Verus Bank at the Derby high school.

“We had a student that identified a $10 bill different than the $10 bills in the stack. This particular bill had less holograms on it, so they took it to me,” Morris said.

Verus Bank confirmed that the $10 bill was not a counterfeit.

“I took it to the Verus Bank here at the high school, and they confirmed that it was just a different style of 10 and was indeed real,” Morris said.

The $10 bill was returned back to the ticket sale stack.

“It’s pretty odd,” Heseltine said.