Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-10-14
NEW CoUNTERFEITs,

The Atlanta tGa) Gontederacy gives a descrip.
ton of some new 800 bills counterfeits of Hover
q Ludwig's plate. They are not the same set afoat
some time since In package of 81, 600, presented
$1,000 were in those bad bills. The COlfederacy
says:
The previous counterfeitS were not the same size
of the genuine and could be detected by measure
naent as we described; but these new base issues
are so nearly the same size that measurement can
not be applied test. There are, however, sew
eral points about them which acareful observer can
detect
First On the left hand end of the bills is sail
or standing up; and above his head is shield on
which the following words are inscribed: "Receiv
able IN payment Of all dues except export dues"
In the genuine the lower point of this shield about
the 10th part of an inch a6oue the sailors hat. In
the counterfeit the point of the shield is igpertsct
the point IS not made. If perfect, it would come
down lower than the top of the hat In the eenu-
inc the point nearly over the centre of the sailors
head little to the left; in the counterfeit the
point of the shield (if it had the point) would be
the left hand side of the sailors hat briu or
near where the brm 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 Gboue the
head as in the genuine, is the most prominent mark
Of distinction.
The wagon wheel this time has the proper num-
genuine-only 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
6turred as the genuine. In the genuine the left
hand hind wheel of the wagon has the spokes CEN
tering to the hub, at the corner of the aoa1On 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 quick test to those who
know and have the run of all of them; but only
bankers, or men who handle money largely, can
make this test. We may say, however, that near
ly all of them appear to be forgeres at once to a
practiced eye. They cramped and bear evidence
of being slowly written, in order the better to imi-
tate the genuine. They are in a heavier hand and
blacker ink. A man skilled in such matters can
see at once that they written by an effort, and
not by free, easy, natural hand.
We have seen only one counterfeit fifty, though
several of them have been detected in this city,
They arc also superior imitation of the genuine :;
so perfect are they that we unable to discover
any striking points of dssimilarity-none that we
can describe which the common reader can under
stand, save perhaps one. The bill before us is
signed A. w. Gray, for Treasurer" The word
"for a" is in small common italics and Treasurer
is in small capitals, thus: "tor TREASURER" In
the counterfeit, the hair line on which the signature
is written passes across the f" in the word for"
and touches the tops of the letters "or." In the
genuine, the word for" is below the line on which
the signature is written 1t crosses the upper por-
ton of the "" but does not touch the "or," being
abOUe them. This is the only distinction we are
able to describe that we think can be comprehended
by readers generally. The nallet is made blank,
the sailors uisheveled hair is smoothed down, the
handle on the iron box is right, and the woman's
head is in the right place. All the points of differ
remedied, so that only an experienced per-
son can detect them by their general appearance.
Now, what are the people to do? We advise
them to refuse every 90, 80, and 100 of the Hoyer
& Ludwig plates. The Government has called for
them. Let them be sent in and no more circulated.