The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-09-15
SPURIOUS MONEY.
List of the Most Dangerous COun-
terfeits Now I'm Circulation.

1t has been ascertained that coun-
terfeit bills on the following banks
arc being circulated: On the Mer-
chants National Bank Of New York
City, $40 and S. are easily disposed
of. The engraving is admirably exc
cuted upon first-class paper, and is
looked upon as being q very danger
Gus counterfeit. Ten-dollar bills of
the American National Bank, Broad
way, New York, are freely circulated.
They are well executed, but can be
detected by the difference of the sha-
ding of the large letters. There are
two sets Of counterfcits issued on the
Ninth National Bank OF New York !;
they are $40 and S2 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 $40 and 50 coun-
tcrfeits. They are well executed,
but the shading under the title of
"Dank" 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 cx-
ecuted, the printing and engraving
being above the ordinary class, but
the shading in the background of the
vignctte is coarse. A third fraudu-
lent plate for $40 United States
Treasury notes has just come TO light;
il does not come up TO the second
plate, but the imitation is good.
Many impcrfections Of the second
plate haye also been rcctiiicd in the
new plate. There arc a number Of
$40 United States Treasury notes of
the second issue so well executed
that the lest experts car hardly tell
the difference between he counterfeit
and the genuine. They can only be
detected in the defective engraving
i'm the portrait of Lincoln. A large
number of $50 Treasury notes, well
executed, in several instances have
passed as genuine. Twenty-dollar
bills of the same denomination, of
March 3, 1863, are extensively circu-
lated, the engraving being firSt-class
and the paper good. There are also
n number of 81 and 81 bills, but in
these cases the engraving is coarse,
and with little attention can be
easily detected.
COuntcrfcits Of United States legal
tender notes of $40 and 81 are quite
plentiful, but as the engraving is
very coarse they are not readily ac-
ceptcd.
The following is list of the coun-
try notes which are also said TO be
freely circulated at every given op-
portunity: Twenty dollar bills on
the First National Bank of Boston
Mass. these notes are well executed
and printed on good paper, but arc
defective on examination with the
genuine: twenty dollar bills on the
Fourth National Bank of Phiiadel-
phia; the engraving 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 well calculated to de-
ceive, and are well printed, the plate
used can be easily altered to any of
the national currency bank notes;
five dollars on the Peoples Natonal
Bank, Michigan; these are poorly
got up; ten dollarS ~ the Farmers
and Merchants B.I.. ~ Poughkeep-
sic; these bills are Wei executed and
printed on good paper, and will prove
a dangerous counterfeit.