Bisbee daily review., 1914-11-28
COUNTERFEITS ALONG
 BORDER BOTHER THE GREATELY
Rumors of New Issues of the Fic- tiCious Currency are Abroad; All Issues are Subject to Close Scrutiny.

Reports that there are new coun- terfeits of constltutonalist money is- sues on the border market have add ed still another puzzling feature to the conditions faced by the Bisbee dealers in Mexican currency.
 There is little of Villa issue known as the "Chao" money because he. as governor of Chihuahua, at that time, signed it. handled on the local mar ket at present it is stated. Because of the roughness Of the printing and the poor quality of paper used, this issue is readily subject to counter feats.
 The Chihuahua state issue. known as the "Betrato" (photograph) issue, because it bears the pictures of Ma dero and Gonzales. is better engraved and not so easily counterfeited There l is a considerable quantity of this is- sue in local circulation.
 The constitutionalist army issue known as "Aguila" because it bears the picture of the Mexican eagle and the serpent on the reverse side. has been counterfeited many times. while ! a considerable quantity in lost tran ! sit from New York to Agua Prieta was put on the market with the sig natures forged In other parts of Mexico than Sonora, where the issue ] Iis generally accepted this money is regarded ss counterfeit. The explana- ton brings to light the high state of 1 disorganization brought about by the revolution
 s. Aguierre then acting treasurer general of Carranza's cabinet, signed the money jointly with Francisco Escudero, chief of the department of hacienda He had a rubber stamp. bearing a facsimile of his signature made and this was used on thou. sands of the bills until 1t wore down to the point of illegibility Aguirre then began signing with a pen, but soop developed a case Of writer's cramp. The idea then occurred to him and was acted upon, of sending him and was acted upon. Of sending bills to the various perfectos of the state of Sonora. authorizing each to sign his name to the money. This was done and the resulting sigma lures were so unlike that of Aguirre that anyone could forge and "get away with it." This resulted in a new issue of counterfeits, or what .purported to be such. Money re- ceived through supposedly legitimate channels was seized by the govern ment and for a time the ruling vas made that in order 10 make any bill genuine, it would have Co be stamped with the seal Of che perfectura Oi the district This inflicted a great hardship upon the people many oi whom although living more than 100
 miles from the nearest perfectura had to make the trip to the capital
 of the district to have the currency in their possession stamped U-ith the official seal
 The ruling was again changed and the state of soUora guaranteed al the currency, whether stamped ol : not The latter ruling is still il
 force
 Dealers in Mexican money. partic ularIy the constitutional issues, hay,
 to be extremely careful in acceptini
 any currency as genuine. Mono
 graphs have been written by expert 5 upon the subject of scientific detec ton of the spurious and there arr several typewriter pages of direct ions for detection Of the bad con ! cerning every denomination from th
 one peso bill up to tie thousand dol
 lar ones.