Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1888 — A DANGEROUS COUNTERFEIT. [ARTICLE]

A DANGEROUS COUNTERFEIT.

Spurious 85 Sliver Certificates in Circulation in the West. [Chicago special.] Dangerous $5 silver certificates are in circulation in Chicago. Many merchants have found them in their tills, and a number of them have been passed at the banks. They are well executed and calculated to deceive the unwary, but a little care will enable one to distinguish them from the genuine. The lathe scroll wojk in the counterfeit is far from good, while the quality of ink appears to be better than that used by the Government. The very best means of detecting the new counterfeit is by the printed imitation of the silk thread running entirely across the back of the bill. In some of the original bills there are two of these silk threads, while others have but one. On the back of the counterfeit is printed one straight line across the bill. With a pin or kqife thia deception can be discovered instantly.