Show know your money and you 11 ll not be losing I 1 it tto to counterfeiters Counterfeit ers says sa ys chief of the united states secret service MERVE y PE OF NOT J h TRE ISEAL AND LETTER lan 0 1 F azpr 0 a R L VP r U r V IL s apie ap C L REEN law B A Z I 1 W ju walk AL arr CHECK 1 FACE PLATE ot study the above diagram it shows you the position of important I 1 features of united states paper I 1 money if you get a suspected bill compare genuine bill and observe calef carefully ully the following features by ELMO SCOTT WATSON released by western newspaper Newa paper union HEN your friends say to you well dont take any W WHEN wooden nickels nickel sl you laugh heartily for you recognize it as a good joke of course you take any wooden nickels nickel sl but theres always ti a chance that do something worse take a paper bill that looks as though its worth 1 or 5 or 10 but its just as worthless as a wooden nickel because its a counterfeit in fact during b h recent five year period americans were swindled to the tune of 1 a year by counterfeit ers and these crooks got by with it mainly because of the indifference and ignorance of their victims how about YOU do you ever do more than just glance casually at the paper bills that are handed you in making change specially especially when handed you by a stranger do you know whose portrait is on a one dollar bill or a five or a ten do you know what pictures are on the backs of those bills if you do you have made a good beginning towards protecting your pocketbook from the counterfeit counterfeiter if you dont know the outstanding features of your money you have only yourself to blame if you become the victim of the counterfeiter and his vicious racket yes you say but how can I 1 I 1 learn e am about money I 1 know what i it looks like but I 1 dont know what to look lor for well the united states secret service has undertaken to s show how you what to look for A trial educational cat ional campaign indicated that this loss was largely due to to your lack of knowledge about money but the campaign also showed that enlightenment of the people WO would uld protect them therefore the campaign of education against crime was intensified under the slogan know your money for the calendar year of 1940 the public losses through acceptance of counterfeit notes were reduced to about the secret service believes this 90 per cent reduction is the dividend of its know your money pampa campaign ign newspaper stories magazine articles and rid educational pamphlets carry the message into homes schools and the business world A 32 page illustrated bo booklet ok just off the press entitled know your money published by the secret service tells how to detect counterfeit notes and coins and how you may protect yourself against the forger of government checks the booklet may be obtained from the superintendent of documents government printing office washington D C tor for 10 cents the copy A sound motion picture also entitled know your money entirely made by the secret service and with lowell thomas as commentator is being shown in high schools in the 48 states and to business groups of persons or more there is no secret formula tor for detecting a counterfeit note says frank J wilson chief of the united statis states secret service years of experience have proven that the human eye is the best counterfeit detector in exis existence tente but it must be properly trained genuine paper money is printed on distinctive paper containing tiny red and blue silk threads the printing is done from steel en graved plates made by a corps of the most expert engravers inthe in the world do you have a bill in your pocket or purse take it out now and look closely at the portrait of washington lincoln or another of the great americans shown on the various denominations you will see that the facial characteristics are shaded by small dots dot S and dashes each of which is clear and distinct in th portrait back ground you will see tiny perfectly square spaces between horizontal and vertical lines which are also very clear around bound the border of the bill face and back are intricate white lines resembling a net these are known as the geometrical lathe work and each line is unbroken from beginning to end look at the colored treasury seal on the face of the bill around its outer edge are many sharp points W which aich look like the teeth of a circular saw the counterfeiter has a hard time to imitate a bill and most counterfeits are crude but sometimes he makes one above the average whether a counterfeit is a good or poor reproduction you should be able to detect it by comparison with a note of the same denomination which is known to be genuine A comparison of this kind will readily disclose defects in the portrait the seal and the lathe work border and is definitely the best method of counterfeit detection if the suspected bill is e aj I 1 M FRANK J WILSON counterfeit its portrait will be dull amu smudgy agy or scratchy in appearance pe arance the points on the colln counterfeit tri treasury masury seal geal will be uneven or blunt instead of sharp and regular the white net lines in the bo border ader will bo be broken in many places and generally the I 1 texture of the p spar paper and the color of the 06 ink inkwell will bequete be quite different than the genuine it Is often said that if the ink or color can be rubbed off a bill the bill is counterfeit nothing could be more wrong according to mr wilson the ink or color can be rubbed from both genuine and counterfeit notes and such a test proves nothing counterfeit coins are also a source of trouble genuine silver coins have a clear bell like ring counterfeits sound dull ring silver coins on hard surface and beware of those thoe which sound like stone in extremely rare instances genuine silver coins may have an invisible crack or air bubble which would make them sound dun dull however these are so few that your chances of receiving one are very slight indeed the corrugated outer edge of silver coins is known as the reeding it is this feature which should be closely examined on suspected coins likewise this reeding should be compared with that on a coin of the same denomination known to be genuine i on most counterfeits the reeding is noticeably imperfect but on genuine coins the corrugations are regular and distinct in some cases of course the reeding Is completely worn away on genuine coins which have circulated for a long time PORTRAIT on genuine bills the portrait Is lifelike Ul elike stands out from the Ithe oval background which is a fine screen of regular lines notice particularly the eya eyes on a i counterfeit the portrait Is dull smudgy or unnaturally white scratchy the background is dark wit with irregular and broken lines the portraits of 11 great americans appear on united states mon money ey it is important for your protection that you know on which bills these portraits appear regardless gard less of the type of bill all bills of th the same denomination bear the same portrait as follows i washington on an all 1 bills jefferson on an all 2 b bills Us lincoln conall on all 5 b bills 11 hamilton on all 10 b bills II 11 jackson od on an all 20 b bills s grant on all 50 bills franklin on all bills MeN mcfinley Mc Hinley juley on all bills cleveland on onah all 1000 bills madison on all bills chase on all bins bills 2 SEAL on the genuine bill the sawtooth points around the rim are identical and sharp on the counterfeit these points are usually different uneven broken off 3 SERIAL cumberson NUM BERSOn on the genuine bill they are distinctive in style firmly and evenly printed in the same sam e color as the seal on the counterfeit the style is different poorly printed badly spaced uneven uneven in appearance 4 PAPER genuine bills are printed on distinctive paper containing very small red and blue silk threads the following information about paper currency will also be helpful signatures the signature of the secretary of the treasury appears at the lower right side on the front of an all united states paper germoney money the signature of the treasurer of the united states appears on the lower left side TYPES OF CURRENCY oar Our government now prints three types of currency or paper money federal reserve notes silver certificates and united states notes every note or bill is distinguished by words telling which type it Is printed at the top tap of 01 the me bill on its face or front the type of each bill is also shown by the color of its treasury seal and aid serial numbers the treasury seal and serial numbers are REEN GREEN on federal deserve reserve notes RED on united states notes and BLUE on an silver certificates FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES federal re reserve be notes are placed in circulation by the federal ie serve banks each bank placing its own notes in circulation through the banks located in its district there are 12 federal reserve districts each district has a number and a corresponding letter of the alphabet for its I 1 symbol SYMBOL DISTRICT city LETTER NUMBER boston 4 A I 1 new york B 2 philadelphia 0 3 cleveland D 4 richmond E 5 atlanta F 6 chicago G 7 st louis H f 0 minneapolis 1 I S kansas city J 10 dallas X san francisco L 12 the letter all A in the regional bank seal on an a fed federal eral reserve note shows that it was issued by the boston federal reserve bank in the first district the letter B in the regional bank seal and the figure 2 shows that a bul bill was issued from the federal reserve bank ofner of new york and so on through the list ast of the 12 banks to san francisco whose symbol letter is L and district number to Is 12 11 the regional bank seal and the district number on led fed 1 eral reserve notes ire are al alway BLACK |