The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-04-10
CouNrE n, NOTES IN CrRcuLAr1oN

COUNTERFEIT NOTES IN CIRCULATION
How TO DETECT THEM.-The city
and the country are getting fairly food
ed with counterfeit United States bank
notes, and the adroit rascals who ven
.ture so much in making and vending
limitations and alterations of national
bank bills are evidently reaping rich
harvests. Investigation shows that for
half generation there has not been SO
much queer" rs the dealers call it,
safoat as at the present time. Careful,
observant people can ordinarily detect
it, but the poor and the laboring classes,
who handle little money, and are so
easily deceived, are victimized largely,
and suffer in proportion. Within the
last forty-eight hours more than forty
persons in all sorts of business have had
the bill "shoved'' Oh them. 1t is of the
denomination of five dollars, an imita-
ton of that of the Peoples National
Bank, Jackson, Michigan 1t is rough
ly executed wood engraving, badly
done as compared with the original, and
vet well calculated to deceive in its gen.
eral appearance. But it is easily de-
tected by even casual inspection when
attention is called to it. The sigma
lures of both president and cashier are
printed, while in all genuine bills these
names are invariably written. The let
tiers ct" and $50 in the title s'Pres't" in
the original are separated by an apos-
trophe; in the counterfeit they are join
led, with no apostrophe. In the coun-
terfeit the neat figure OF the two females,
sitting, on the lower right, is almost
invisible in the genuine it is very clear
and distinct. The back of the bill is
still more bunglingly made than the
'front.' The green is pale and poor, and
in the true bill no letters along the top
touch on the green border, while in the
spurious the words are partly printed
on the green entirely across. The pic
lure plate is too large for the green bor-
der. There are several minor differ
ences,, but these will be safeguard if
observed.
The plan of operation in getting
counterfeits in circulation should be un-
derstood in order to save the public.
Lett be known, then, that this bill on
the Michigan Jackson Bank is not the
one that is intended to be showed. But
it is another bill on another bank, prob
ably in totally different section of
country, that will be extensively print
ed from this same plate, with only the
name changed. First comes the flyer,''
and when that is started" detected,
exposed, and everybody is looking for
1t, all ola sudden out comes the mate"
and before any one suspects it the mis-
chiof is done, and victims uselesly
: mourn by thousands. So in this case,
s"Look out for the second bill % Dis
trust all g fves," and keep close to the
Bank Note Reporter, for the rogues
are about and watching every chance.
. Spot them at the very first opportunity,
) and the harm they would do may be
materially interfered with.
There is also in circulation danger
Gus counterfeit "ten' on the" Flour
City National Bank of Rochester, New
York" 1t is well executed, but the sig
natures of the officers in this, as in the
other, are engraved, instead of being
written, as they are in the genuine bills.
The bad bill is half an inch longer than
the good one.-Care will detect it.
The fifties," compound interest
notes, are also initiated very successful
lp, although they have scratchy APP
pearance" There are certain character
istics of counterfeits which enable an
a expert to detect them at a glance. It
is the unlnitiated that generally suffer,
and those who can least afford to get
swindled. But everybody should know,
now that they never see anything but
paper money, enough to be suspicious.
The paper of genuine bills is always
4 extra nice, and counterfeits never. 1t
is invariably the rule that spurious bills
are printed ON coarse and inferior pa
per, totally lacking the finish of bank
note paper. Then the ink is generally
poor, and the green and red colors are
never SO clear, fine and decided as the
genuine article.-Herdld