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Show Money-Makers Faking Currency, Watch Out For It Old rough and tumble Andy Jackson, the seventh U. S. President, Pres-ident, had a strong chin. When his portrait was included on the $20 bill that chin was faithfully reproduced,, complete to a tiny cross-chin line. Today that line is your best protection against receiving one or more of the fake $20 bills reported to be flooding the country to the tune of $75,000 to $100,000. U. S. Secret Service agents have been warning merchants mer-chants to be on the alert for these bogus bills. They report that the fake money is printed on poor paper, has a pasty-face portrait of Jackson Jack-son (instead of the legitimate bill's shadings and facial lines) and has Jackson's cape the. same color as the picture's background. The cape should be darker. Twenty dollar bills a re not the only counterfeits around. Secret Service agents report that many phoney $50 bills are also in circulation, but these they say are fairly good reproductions, requiring re-quiring close observation to detect de-tect the flaws. The Secret Service also reports that within the last six months counterfeiting has returned to a big time racket after being stamped out during the war. The stealing and forging of government govern-ment checks has also shown a sudden increase, the Treasury Department reports. |