The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-31
MANY BAD BILLS
HOW TO TELL RAISED PAPER
Picture on Bill Indicates Its
Denomination.
Majority of People Careless in
Accepting Money.

Accepting Money.
.Counterfeiters are very active in all
parts of the country at the present
and their efforts are largely devoted to
raising federal reserve notes and fed
eral reserve bank notes. a nation
wide campaign has started among
banks trust companies and the treas
ury departments of railroads and 9TH
er corporations, to give information
which will lead to quick detection of
these bills.
zone way in which the general pub
lie can aid the government and finan-
cial institutions is to carefully scruti-
nize all federal reserve and federal
reserve bank notes Genuine notes of
all issues bear the following portraits:
5 1-Washington.
Jefferson.
5-Lincoln.
10-Jackson.
20-CleVeland.
6o-Grant.
100-Franklin.
II you are handed SO federal re-
serve note, and find a photograph of
George Washington thereon. you can
be assured that the cOunterfeiting
chain has raised that note from a 81
bill. BY keeping in mind the pictures
that go with these notes. the average
citizen will not be susceptible to coun-
terfeit1ng. and by maintaining con-
slant alertness some day assist in
bringing the criminals to justice.
People Careless About Money.
Counterfeiters are raising notes on
this species of money and large
amounts of these bills are now in cir
culation in many localities Most peo-
pie are careless in accepting money,
only casually glancing at the large
numbers to learn denominations be-
fore readily accepting note. There
fore the counterfeiters are reaping
rich harvest.
w H Moran, chief of the govern
ment secret service, has reported
photogra phic production printed on
two pieces of paper, between which
silk fiber has been distributed. This
is a new counterfeit $40 federal re-
serve note on the Federal Reserve
bank Of San Francisco. While no ef-
fort has been made to color the seal
or serial number on the face of note,
the back has been touched up and
presents a blue green appearance II
should not deceive the ordinarily
careful handler of money.
There is another counterfeit, altho
less dangerous, on the Federal Reserve
bank of Chicago, in which the So fed
eral reserve note has been initiated.
Moran reports that the face OF this
note is very badly printed.
Methods Counterfeiters Use.
Many different methods are used In
raising notes and among them are the
following:
81 federal reserve bank notes raised to
$40 on notes of this kind so far seen the
backs are particularly deceptive.
So federal reserve bank notes raised to
$2G Great care should be taken In ac-
cepting SEQ notes, for the raised bills are
S. federal reserve notes raised to $50
These notes are particularly dangerous the
larger numerals, both front and back, be-
ing carefully trimmed and pasted on o
50 federal reserve notes raised 10 sou
a. IL, I,ox-a haar GSan
out the country, but largely in the middle
west. 40
side and 81 on the other. OF course, in
rendering the bill. the side of the larger
denomination is turned upward. there
may be other tricks resorted TO ana oth'
combinations made
A good motto is: watch your $40
bills or you may find you've lost SO.
Merchants everywhere are being
fleeced out of large sums of money.
Theaters and other amusement places
have also been heavy losers, because
ticket sellers in these places have no
time to carefully examine bills given
them. The raised bill is slipped cas-
ually thru the box office window in
exchange for tickets and the ticket
seller, with only slight glance at
the large numbers, places the note in
the compartment for ten dollar green
backs and hands out the change.
The supposition is that there are
organized gangs that travel from place
to place raising bills and circulating
them.
The National Counterfeit Detector,
a monthly magazine published for the
information of bankers, merchants
and others likely to be defrauded out
of money by expert counterfeiters, or
their dupes, issues the following hint
about the number system:
"All government notes-but not ma
tional bank bills-are printed of one
denomination, eight on a sheet and
lettered respectively A, B, c, D, E, F,
G. and H. Each note also bears a treas
ury number. Divide this number, or
only the last two figures of it, by four,
and if the remainder is one, then the
check letter should be A or E; if two
remains then B or F; if three remains,
then c or G, and if no remainder, then
d or H. If the result shows other
wise, then the numbering is wrong
and the bill is a counterfeit Wrong
numbering will detect a very large
number of the counterfeits in cir
culation, but some counterfeits, how
ever, have correct check letter"
II you are in doubt about a bill,
take it to your banker at once. He
will advise you of its worth. 1t would
be a good plan for every man, woman,
and child in Topeka, who ever handles
a dollar bill or larger, to memorize the
table given in a preceding paragraph
showing the photographs on federal
reserve and federal reserve bank notes
of various denominations