The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-29
QUEER ERROR
IN GOLD NOTES
q in Thousand Converted by Engrav-
er Into an N.
PLATE IN USE FOR YEARS
ALL GENUINE, BUT CASHIER OF
LOCAL BANK is SURPRISED.

One thousand dollar gold certificates
are not in general circulation as a rule
and consequently the few persons who
may possess one or two are not aware
that the genuine bill contains a GAR
ing error. In bills of smaller denom-
nation such an error would convince
almost any one that the note or certif-
cate was counterfeit
Across the face Cf the gold certificate
enc notices at a glance the words lone
Thousand Dollars In old English
script. the letters being large and
standing out boldly from the paper in
the form of segment of a circle. on
clCse examination it viii be found that
the u" in thousand" is an IN" the
enSraver at the bureau of printing and
engraving in Washington having for
some reason converted the u into an
Some years have elapsed since this
plate was made. and the mistake went
unchallenged until recently when the
teller of the Second National bank in
Cincinnati discovered il. At first il was
thought that the certificate was coun-
terfeit, but when similar certificates
were found in the sub-treasury in that
city it was deemed advisable to notify
the treasury department in Washing
ton II now develOpeS that the mistake
has stood for many years, but steps
viii be taken Immediately to call in all
nomination and have new plate made.
False Letter on Many Certificates.
At one of the local banks yesterday
the attention of the cashier-was called
to the matter for the first time. He
said that he had never noticed the error
and was inclined 10 be skeUtical about
ii. However. he brought forth a pack
age of the gold certificates from the
vault. and running through them saw
hat h.
u" in the word thousand in every.
one possessed by the bank
OF course he was surprised, but he
said that the error did not amount to
much for the reason that the certifi-
cate was not in general circulation. and
that perhaps not more than ten were
held by private individuals in this city.
Referring to the bogus ten-dollar sill
yer certificate, now believed to be in
circulation through the Rocky noun
tain and Pacific slope states, attention
to which was called in The Herald of
Friday, the cashier said that all the
! local bank authorities were keeping
sharp lookout. but that thus far none
of the bills had appeared in Salt Lake.
1t may be interesting for the public
To know he said. that there is a sim
pie test which may be applied to all
national bank notes when the receiver
of one is in doubt as TO the genuineness
Of the bill passing through his hands.
All national bank notes are issued in
series known as "A b C. and ID.
Each note has q distinguishing number
For instance, suppose that the numb Der
is '3S90S092.' Divide the last two fig
ures by a You viii find that there is
no remainder The bill belongs there
fore to Series D. When there is a re-
mainder of l, the note belongs to Sc
ries A, where there is remainder of
, it belongs to Series b and when there
is remainder of three il is in the series
known as c. -a
1T might be well. also, to call the
attention of the public TO a popularity
in the engraving of the new en-dollar
side of the face of the bill you will no
be driven down into the ground. As
engraver did not complete his work,
and the bottom of the, post looks as
though it was unfinished.
Dangerous FiVe-DoIIar Note.
"As regards the five-dollar national
bank note there is an infallible test to
be applied if one is i'm doubt as to
whether the note is genuine or not. On
the back of the bill you will notice that
there is a border filed with figure SIS
at intervals of about half an inch. At
the right side there is d panel contains
ing a large figure - In the genuine
bills the thin up and down line on the
left CT this panel extends 10 the bot
tom and intersects one Of the figures in
the border. About year ago a note
of this denomination came into my