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Show A Dangerous Counterfeit. For several weeks some persons as yet undiscovered have been flooding the city of Baltimore with counterfeit $10 bills. They have been presented at all the banks in the city. The counterfeit is not a new one, hut is rather hard to detect. It is oa the Gcrmauia national batik of New Orleans. Or-leans. It bears check letter C and is signed W. S. liosecrans, register of the treasury, aud C. M. Jordan, treasurer of the United States. It has the large scallop brown seal aud brown back. The treasury numbers are poorly stamped and the color Df the ink resembles a coarse brick red. The work on the face is poorly ex-rcuted, ex-rcuted, as can be seen by any one familiar with the character of engraving on all genuine ten dollar natioual bank notes. This counterfeit is printed on cheap bond paper. The backs are much better engraved en-graved than the faces. They present a at n nun: HUIl are calculated to deceive de-ceive even good judges of money. The color of the brown and green inks is good. |