Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-09-06
SPURIOUS MONEY.
List of the Most Dangerous COunterfeits
Now i'm Circulation.


If has been ascertained that counterfeit
bills ON the following banks are being cir
culated: On the Merchants National Bank
of New York City, $50 and 50 are easily
disposed of. The engraving is admirably
executed upon first-class paper, and is
looked upon as being a very dangerous
counterfeit. Ten-dolar bills of the Amer
lean National Bank, Broadway, Newly ork,
are freely circulated. They are well exc
cuted, but can be detected by the difference
of the shading of the large letters. There
are two sets of counterfeits issued ON the
Ninth National Bank of New Yrok; they
are $40 and SO bills, are well executed, and
printed on good paper, and very likely to
deceive. On the National Bank of the
State of New York, there are also $50 and
50 counterfeits. They are well executed,
but the shading under the title of Bank
is bad. These bills should be received with
great caution to prevent imposition.
There are several counterfeit issues of
United States Treasury notes, the most
prominent being $50 bills of March 10,
1862. These are finely executed, the print
ingand engraving being above the ordinary
class, but the shading in the background of
the vignette is coarse. a third fraudulent
plate for SO United States Treasury notes
has Just come to light; it does NOT come up
to the second plate, but the imitation is
good. Many imperfections of the second
plate have also been rectified in the new
plate. There are number of $40 United
States Treasury notes of the second issue so
well executed that the best experts can
hardly tell the difference between the
counterfeit and the genuine. They can
only be detected in the defective engraving
of the portrait of Lincoln. a large NUM-
Der $50 Treasury notes, well executed, in
several instances have passed as genuine.
Twentydollar bills of the same denomina-
ton, of March 8, 1868, are extensively cir
culated, the engraving being first class and
the paper good. There are also number
of g and 81 bills, but in these cases the
engraving is coarse, and with a little atten-
ton can be easily detected. i
Counterfeits of United States legal ten
der notes of $40 and 81 are quite plentiful, |
but as the engraving is very coarse they
are not readily accepted.
The following is list of the country
notes which are also said to be freely cir
culated at every given opportunity: Twen-
ty dollar bills on the First National Bank |
of Boston, Mass; these notes are well exc
cuted and printed on good paper, but are
defective on examination with the genu-
inc twenty dollar bills on the Fourth
National Bank of Philadelphia; the en-
craving in this case is very coarse and can |
soon be detected by any one accustomed to |
handling paper money twenty dollars on |
the First National Bank of indianapolis; |
these notes are we'll calculated to deceive, |
and are well printed the plate used can |
be easily altered to any of the national cur |
rency bank notes; five dollars on the Peo- |
ple's National Bank, Michigan these are |
poorly got up; ten dollars on the Farmers |
and Merchants Bank of Poughkeepsie ; |
these bills are well executed and printed |
upon good paper, and will prove danger |
GUS counterfeit