Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1862-11-07
Counterfeit Confederate Notes
DetectOr.

The Atlanta Confederacy publishes the fol
lowing de scription of counterfeit Treasury notes
which, il thinks, will enable any person to
determine which bills are genuine and which
are not. A convenient method for detecting
bv measurement would be to have strips Of
metal of the exact length "f each demo mi
nation at hand, with knob or button by which
it could be readily lifted and applied to any
suspected note
The counterfeit is and three-sixteenth
inches long, and two and seven-eghth inches
wide precisely rly-measuring inside the straight
marginal lines which surround the engraving.
Tne genuine is over aeuen and three-sixteeuth
inches long-nearly seven and one fourth inch
Z. l,ug-and slight fraction over two and
ftteen-sixteenth inches wide, measuring inside
the marginal lines. Thus the genuine bills are
longer and wider than the counterfeit. These
measurements are infallibe tests, which all can
apply.
Ioe yienetts ON the hundreds ia a cotton
press with mule attached, packing cotton and
d wagon and tenn loading with cotton bales.
In the counterfeit the spokes of the wagon
wheels are light and distinet-,n the genuine
tEey are dark, blurred, aud ind istinct In the
counterfeit the spokes shaded very lightly,
and almost white; in the genuine, the white
is barely distagushable. In the counterfeit,
she left hand hind wheel has eight spokes that
can be seen, the others being behind the bed
of the wagon, in the genuine, only seyen can be
seen.
The mule hleched to the cotton press in the
eounserfsit is distinct, the gear on it, and par
ticularly the harness, can be plainly seen In
tho genuine the mule 10 blurred, very indistinct.
and no part Of the gear or harness can be seen
on it.
FTFTIEs.
The counterfeit is over seven and three six
teenth inches long-nearly seven and quarter
exactly the length of the genuine lO0's-and
two and thirteen sixteenth inches wide precisely
the genuine is exactly seven and quarter inch.
es long, aud two and fifteen sixteenths wlde.
AS in the case of the zoos, the genuine are
wider and longer than the counterfeit. These
measurements are from the innef edge OF the
marginal lines of the bill.
The vignette of the SOS, IL female figure
holdng open q moneychest. In the counterfeit
the head OF this female is close to the final e
in the word Confederate, but little more than
the sxteeHth of an inch from it, and nearly
touches the shading OF that letter. In the gem
uine the head is nearly three-sixteenths of an
inch from the letter-almoss midway between
the word sConfederats' and States
In the lower left.hand corner of the bill are
two ssilors-the right hand sailor having a
mallet across his left arm. In the counterfeit
the head of the mailer lies close up to the arm,
and no part of the handle can be seen; in the
genuine the head of the malet projects out
from the arm far enough for the handle near
the head of the malles to be seen. In the
counterfeit, the head of the mallet 10 rot very
distinct, on account of that side of it next the
sailors arm being made light, or white. in
the engraving, 80 that it looks more like an
old style, round rn.dasher, than a mallet.
Ia the genuine. the head OF the mallet is dis
tinctly defined, with no shading about it, bur
Is solid black. Ia the counterfeit, the hair on
this sailor--the one holding the mallet--ls
eisheveiled the ends OF it sticking out from the
head as if it were blown up by gale OF wind;
10 the genuine. the hair hes close down to the
head.