A new elegantly executed counterfeit on the Bank of America, New York City, has just made its appearance and were shoved quite extensively in the city last night.
5s, in centre a female seated with a spread eagle, a shield on which is ‘E Pluribus Unum.” The bill is printed in blue with bright red ends. Large 5 on right end, and V on left. Signatures engraved. It is a facsimilie [sic] of the genuine, and would deceive good judges. Refuse all 5s on this bank.
Look out, also, for 5s on the Bull’s Head Bank, New York. They are an exact imitation of the genuine – [illegible] a man buying a paper of a news boy.
The following banks have been thrown out by some of the bankers here, and are looked upon with suspicion: Real Estate Bank, Delaware Consolidation Bank, Philadelphia –{McElroy’s Chicago Bank Note Reporter.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 1
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