Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-10-21
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COUNTERFEIT CONFEDERATE NOTES
DETECTOR.

description of counterfeit Treasury notes, WHICH:
thinks will enable any person to determine WIN.
Bills are genuine and which are not conve'ie.'
method for detecting by measurement would De 70
have strins of metal of the exact length OF each
denomination at hand, with knob or o9tt9n Ny
which it could be readily lifted and apPheu 70 any
suspected note: -
The counterfeit is seven and three-sXteenh 'hcnes
long and two and sevep-eghth inches wide precise
lyVmeasuriIg inside the straight marginal lines
which surround the engraving. The genuine Is
over seven and three-sixteenth inches lOng-nearly
seven and e-fourth inches long-and slight trac
ton over two and tfteen-sixteenth inches wide,
measuring inside the marginal lines. Thus the
genuine bills longer and wider than the coun-
terfeit These measurements are Intalllole tests,
which all can apply.
The vguette on the hundreds is cotton press,
with mule attached packing cotton, and wagon
and team loading with cotton bales. In the CONN.,
Sereit the spokes of the wagon wheels are light and
xiistiRct-in the genuine they dark blurred, and
indstiuct In the counterfeit the spokes are shaded
very lightly, and almost white in the genuine,
the white is barely diStinguishable. In the coun-
xerfeit the lefthand hind wheel has eight Spokes
that can be seen, the others being behind the bed
of the wagon; in the genuine, only SeueR can be
SEEN. s
The mule hitched to the cotton press in the coun-
terfeit is distinct the gear it, and particularly
Ine naTueSS, can DC plaltiy Seell III Set'uihe
the mule is blurred very ndistnct, and no part OF
the gear or harness can be seen on it.
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The counterfeit is over seven and three-Sxteenth
inches long-nearly seven and quarter-exactly
the length of the genuihe lOOS-and two and thlr-
teen-sixteenth inches wide precisely; the genuine
is exactly seven and quarter inches long and two
and fifteen-sixteenths wide As in the case of the
zoos, the genuine wider and longer than the
counterfeit These measurements are from the in
ner of the marginal lines Of the bill.
The vignette of the sos is female figure hold
ing open a money chest In the counterfeit the
head of this female is close to the final in the
word Confederate but little more than the sixteenth
of an uch from it, and nearly touches the shading
Of that letter. In the genuine the head is nearly
three-sixteenths of inch from the letter-almost
midway between the words Confederate and
States"
10 the lower left-hand corner of the bill are two
saiors-the rght-hand sailor having mallet across
his left arm. In the counterfeit the head of the
mallet lies close up to the arm. and no part OF the
handle can be seen in the genuine the head OF the
MALE: projects out from the arm far enough for the
handle near the head of the maliet TO be seen. In
the counterfeit the head of the malet is not very
distinct account of that side of it next the sail
or's arm being made light or 1chite in the engrav-
ing so that it looks more like an old style, round
churn-dasher, than mlllet In the genuine, the
head of the mallet is distinctly defined, with no
shading about it but is solid black In the coun-
terfet the hair Of this sailor-the one holding the
mallet-is disheveed the ends of 1t sticking out
from the head as il it were blown up by gale of
wind in the genuine, the hair lies close down to
the head.
The size Of the bills is again certain test The
counterfeit is and three-sixteenh inches long,
nearly-over seven and one-eighth-and is over two
and thirteen-sixteenth inches wde-nearly two and
fourteeuslxteenths. The genuine is seven and five
sixteenth inches long precisely and two and fifteen
sixteenth inches wide nearly-ineasurementS within
the marginal lines, as before-the genuine ag9n
being larger.
On the lower lefthand corner a sailor lears his
elbows upon a capstan. In the counterfeit the
shaded lines of the engraving on the sailors Jacket
run diagonally-almost up and down; in the genu-
iNe these lines rnn straight the sailors back
BctweenEhe KS there are a couple of small
hearts, pointing towards each other. In the coun-
terfeits these hearts solid black and their points
touch each other. In the genuine, they are some
distance apart, and the larger eHds of the hearts
have small portion of white, which give them a
light appearance.
Above and below the figure $50" on the bills are
small ornamental figures, formed by triangularly
joining the smaller ends Of three hearts together
The counterfeit has four of these 6eOU the "2O;;"
while the genuine has five.
The vignette IS large three masted, full rugged
ship, with Greek and Latin sails all spread The
Latin Gong three-cornered) sails five in number
In the counterfeit the upper point Of the Latin
Sails to the extreme right or front of the Ship is
nearer the upper margin top line of the bill than
the second, and the second nearer than the third;
in the genuine the upper points of these sails all
reach to the same distance of the upper marginal
line Of the bill
There are a. great many minor distinguishing
marks on all the bills. We have not named half Of
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person who never saw a Confederate note to dis
tingush the counterfeit from the genuine at once
The COyederacy of later date 18th inst) de-
scribes new counterfeit of the Hoyer Ludwig
plates, so nearly the size of the genuine that meas
ureuentcannot be applied test There are, how
ever several points ABOUT them which careful OBJ
server can detect
First On, the left hand end of the bills is sail
or standing up; and above his head is a shield on
which the following words are inscribed "Receiv-
able in payment of all dues except export duo -
In the genuine the lower point of this shield about
the 18th part of an inch abOce the sailors hat In
the counterfeit the point of the shield is inaperect
the point is not made. If perfect it would come !
down lower than the top of the hat In the genu. |
inc the point is nearly the centre of the sailors
head little to the left; in the counterfeit the
point of the shield Gf it had the point would he
over the left hand side Of the sailors hat brim, or
near where the brim joins the crown of the hat |
This defec. in the pon: of the shield and its being
placed further to the left of the sailors head and
extending lower down, and not directly above the |
head as.n the genuine, is the most prominent mark
of distinction.
The wagon wheel this time has the proper num-
Der OF spokes, and they are dim and dark like the
gsnuine-eny little more SO; not light and finely
executed, like the former counterfeit The mule
attached to the cotton press is also dim. and more
indstinct than the former counterfeit and the har
ness cannot be seen, but he is not quite so much
blurred as the genuine. In the genuine the left |
hand hind wheel Of the wagon has the spOkes Gen.
tering to the hub, at the corner ofsthe Dagon bed
or body. In the counterfeit the hub appears to be
behind the bed and out of sight-the point where
the spokes converge at the hub or axle being con-
cealed from the view by the bed of the wagon.
The signatures are a quick test to those who
know and have the run of all of them; but only