Illegal Tender: Counterfeiting and the Secret Service in Nineteenth-Century America by David R. Johnson
Illegal Tender: Counterfeiting and the Secret Service in Nineteenth-Century America

David R. Johnson

Illegal Tender: Counterfeiting and the Secret Service in Nineteenth-Century America

David R. Johnson

222 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

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In 1862 the New York Times reported that nearly 80 percent of American currency in circulation was counterfeit. In New York and Philadelphia outlaw engravers worked by day for the banks that issued real bank notes and by night supplied counterfeit...

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