WASINGTON, March 1. – The first counterfeit five dollar
Treasury notes made their appearance in this city yesterday. They are an exact imitation of the genuine
but can be detected by “U. S.” in the engraving that in the genuine should be
left out.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 3
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