Show A Chapter on Counterfeit Hole Washington 3Mr Casilear superintendent super-intendent of engraving in the bureiu of engraving and printing and one of the most accomplihed experts in the detection detec-tion of counterfeit bank cotes thinks a new design for national bank notes ought to te adopted The old designs have been in use many years and every denomination except the 1 notes and the 1000 notes has been counterfeited Large amounts of counterfeit national bank notes are probably in circulation now the existence of which is unsuspected unsus-pected The fact that the design for any denomination de-nomination of national bank notes is the same for all banks with the exception of the name of the bank renders the task of tho counterfeiter comparatively easy After having made his plato be can throw out his notes as long as ho finds a market for them then when they become be-come advertised as counterfeits he can change the name of his bank and go on with his printing from the old plate By a device adopted at the bureau of engraving en-graving and printing new plates may be made with the charter numbers of tho respective national banks forming as conspicuous a portion of the general design de-sign that it would be easier to make anew a-new plato than to change the old one As an evidence of tho perfection which the counterfeiters sometimes attain it may bo said that an official of tho Revere bank in Boston upon receiving back from the treasury department a 100 counterfeit of its own note wrote a sharp letter criticizing the treasury practices and declaring that the bank was ready to icceive all such notes and that its officers recognized the signatures upon the returned noto as their own Only two denominations of the greenbacks green-backs printed at the bureau of engraving and printing have ever been counterfeited counter-feited whilo all denominations of those prirtod frm plates mad by private companies have been counterfeited |