Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-10-12
Altered Greenhnckn.

Messrs. Hickox & Spear, note and bullion
brokers at the corner Of Montgomery and
Sacramento streets, have shown US an altered
CreenbacS, or Legal Tender note, Of the de-
nomination of 81, raised BY the FASTING pro-
cess to $50, which, though clumsily done,
would still impose on a majority OF people
not experts in paper money. The bill was
offered at their counter for sale this morning
bv 4 stranger, who appeared TO be ignorant Of
the fraud when first spoken to on the subject,
but left very soon afterwards and did not re-
turn. The description of the genuine 81 note
used in this instance by the pastera is as fol-
lows: Large figure in each upper corner,
surrounded BY diamond lathe work, in which
the same figure is four times repeated. Large
circular die in eccentric lathe work, printed
IN anti-chromatic green in left lower corner,
vignette 6gure-head Of Alexander Hamil-
ton, little to the left OF centre OF
bill, touching lower margin and reaching
two-thirds Of the distance towards the top,
with the words limited States" over It and
1.-TWO Dollars" on line with the forehead of
the profile, leading towards the right OF the
bill round die with lines IN green arranged
like spokes in 4 wheel, and words, " At
the Treasury in New York" and hgSres
/, ., 3, upon it to the right of vignette,
in eccentric lathe-work in right lower
corner. The back has two bars Of eccentric
lathe-work running entirely across the bill,
with figure " 2" in each corner, and dou-
bic circle of the same figures occupying the
whole centre of the bill-the words " This
note is a legal tender for all debts public and
private, except duties on imports and inte-
rest on the public debt, and is receivable in
payment Of all loans made to the Uni
led States" enclosed in the inner circle.
The alteration is effected BY FASTING the
figures $50" cut from the bills Of some
bursted-up Eastern wildcat bank, over
the "2" in the upper corners; the word
(. fifty'' in the like manner over the word
two on the line with the forehead Of the
profile, and daubing out the words and figures
two wherever repeated, on the front and
back, with green ink, which on examination
will be found to differ materially in color
from that used in printing the genuine bill.
1t will be well for people handling Legal
Tenders when there is any doubt Of genuine
ness, to closely examine the green parts Of
the bill, as the anti-chromatic green used In
the National currency printing offices is Of
peculiar character, which cannot be initiated
successfully BY counterfeiters, and is not OBJ
tainable by anybody but regular bank note
PRIMERS, ellner III buIOpS VI AmeILCdJ anu
the alterations will always be easily detected
BY the difference in the color. The genuine
$50 notes have the profile head Of Hamilton
for vignette, the same as the 81 bills; but
the vignette is at the top instead Of the bot
tom of the bill; the words United States +"
commence near the left lower corner and end
near the right upper corner; bar Of lathe
work in green, having "ffty" in figures and
letters, many times repeated, runs across the
front Of the bill, below the vignette, and the
back of the bill is covered entirely with scroll
| and lathe-work, in which the denomination is
repeated in letters and figures hundreds oil
! times, the character of the bill being given in
a single circle in the centre. No one need be
imposed on by the fraud, if careful in exam
| lining the bills presented: but as the work Of
alteration has evidently just commenced on
this coast, it will be well for people having
occasion to handle the national currency, to
have their eyes open and be on their guard
! S. +. Aka. ...