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F E D E R A L RESERVE B A N K
O F N E W YORK

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Cash Department

("Circular No. 4131
[November 2,1921J

New Counterfeit $10 Federal Reserve Note
To all Banks, Trust Companies and Savings Banks
in the Second Federal Reserve District:
The Treasury Department in its circular letter No. 481 describes a new counterfeit $10 Federal Reserve Note as follows:
"On the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Illinois; check letter ' C ; W. G.
McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury; John Burke, Treasurer of the United States;
portrait of Jackson. The face of this counterfeit is a photograph. The back is a
crude etching. I t is printed on fair quality paper, red and blue ink lines being
used to imitate the silk fiber of the genuine. The number of the specimen at hand
is G29506909A.
"An examination of the backs of bills of the above description should result
in immediate detection of the counterfeit."




Very truly yours,
B E N J . STRONG,

Governor