No antics it is real, the note I have has all the security features the same as other 5's. I have heard of them being faked before and it is usually altering a letter like an E removing the bottom to make it an F. If you click on the picture I posted you can zoom in and see it is definatly an A on the left and a C on the right. I did some searching on the internet and found this page. They show lots of serial # mistakes.