The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-07
PUT +STICKERSr ON COINS.
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B1IN0 ~ gREAsU1Y.
Esadesmen stsenfng Advertisements
onsilver rDollsrs-Pettins ''DonbIe
Headepsss en- silver Pfeccs.

oOvekum0nt q goOu deal Oh
bother. They are circular
bits Of paper with adver.
elements on tho fsce and mucilsgo on
the back. Made by tho lick Of tho
longuc to adhere 30 the reverse Of
silver dollar opeiof these little plas-
GERS is iuss big enough to fit inside Of
the milled rim. They have been COM
ing widely into use in the West and tho
South. Every time n merchant re.
ceives n cartwheol dollar in the way OF
business, he slaps q sticker upon IL,
which reads, ''Tskc me back to Bugga,
cheap furniture house, where you get
the biggest value for cash" or, Gre
turn me to Snaggs, the dry goods man,
and 1 will fetch n bargain"
This ingenius idea is copyrighted by
q Columbus man, who prints and sup
plies the gummed stickers to merchants
nc 80 much thousand. His circulars,
distributed broadcast over the country,
suggests that shopkeepers had better
make haste to avail themselves of this
novel method of advertising before a
law il passed forbidding it. Mean.
while dollars with stickers on them are
nn"iHg in;uJtho Treasury from a., over
the United States. Bankers and bust.
hess houses are writing every day tn
the department. begging it to abntc the
nuisance, which in the West has already
spread nlarmingly
Many people arc unwilling to accept
the sticker dollars, and so the circula-
tion of Uncle SANS coins is interfcred
with. Most banks will not take them,
because the Treasury has issued noti-
fication to the effect that it will not nc.
cept or redeem them. 1t holds the
ground that they are defaccd and are
not legal tender on that account. IT
j. true that they might be restored TO
their original perfection by removing
the stickcrs, but Secretary Carlisle has
nr appropriation for scrnping them of.
Tka m"cilago employed is of so excel
lent II qunlity that twelve hours soak
ing does not loosen the paper from the
silver.
Furthermore, tho covering mp Of
one side of the coin renders it greatly
more difficult to discover whether tho
latter is n counterfeit or not. Chief
Drummond, of the Secret Service,
showed to your correspondent n
specimen Of the finest imitation dollar
ever struck with n die. 1t is plated
with silver, and few experts could dis -
tinGuish it from II real one. The de.
rcption WAS considerably enhanced by
II Stickcr on tho reverse advertising u
shoe house in Ottumwn, Iowa. Were
this practice permitted manufacturers
Of false money would make business
Of pasting on the backs of their bogus
pieces advertisements bearing tho
names of reputable shop keepers. Thus,
iirtsmuch NJ respectable merchant
would not knowingly use bad coins to
publish his business, his credit would
help the countorfeits to gain circulu-
! tiom. Also, how is anybody to know
that the side of tho doll,r concealed by
ttickcr has not been scoopcd out and
fitted up with lcadp
Fortunately there is legal enact
mont forbidding the defaccment of the
United States money, and that law il tu
hHsnf9res1 l9r The isRTMfTfa6i9G. TMfT6G the cur.
rrncy. Many district attorneys in
various parts of tho country have
already threatened to prosecute mer.
chants using tho stickcrs, and the
business will be brought to m abrupt
: close. Oddly enough, scheme wholly
similar was started II few years ago,
but 1t was nippcd in the bud before it
had chance to spread. Men some.
times stamp their Grm names Oh coins.
Likewise they print their business
cards on tho backs of 81 or So bills.
Such acts are strictly forbidden nv
law, The penalty is 800 fine for each
note or coin so marked.
species of coin mutilation not less
interesting than that above described
has excited tho attention Of tho Secret
Service during the past year 1t is tho
manufacture Of what are technicsllv y
called "double headers" for gamblino
purposes. For example, silver dollar
ls put into lathe and cutting tool
Is applied to it in such manner ns to
remove thrce-fourth of the metal from
the back, leaving the milled rim in.
tact. What remains resembles in
form blacking box lid. Next ~
either dollar IL taken, and the back of
1T is sliced off in the shape of thin
disk. This disk and the fragment like
ii h!ackiig box iii are then ioincd
neatly together in such n manner as to
produce what has the appearance of u
whole silver dollar The piece thus
composed has no head of Liberty, but
wv" talls-one on each side
In precisely the same manner silver
COINS are turned out with two heads
Such pieces are sold by some dealers
III so-called sporting" goods to per-
SONS who wish to use them for cheat
Ing unsuspicious strangers in bar
rooms and elsewhere. Dollars thus
prepared fetch $5 each, half dollars S:}
each. \ Chicago man arrested for
manufacturing them recently was con
rlctcd and fined under the law which
prohibits the making OF coins OF
original designs by private individu-
alS IN this country. There is no doubt
that the idea Is exceedingly original
as we'll as dangerous to the unsophisti-
Gated.
The little game" worked with these
"douhlc headers" is rs simple as it is
profitable 1t is necessary that the
operator shall be provided with two of
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