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FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK Cash Department ["Circular No. 660"] [_ March 18, 1925 J New Counterfeits To all Banks, Trust Companies and Savings Banks in the Second Federal Reserve District: The Treasury Department in its circular letter No. 552 describes two new counterfeits as follows: $5 Federal Reserve Note "On the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; check letter ' H ' ; plate number indistinct; D. H. Houston, Secretary of the Treasury; John Burke, Treasurer of the United States; portrait of Lincoln. "This counterfeit is a very poor imitation, apparently printed from crudely etched plates on a single piece of paper, purple ink lines being used to imitate the silk fiber of the genuine. The workmanship on the bill is so poor that a more detailed description of it is deemed unnecessary." $20 Federal Reserve Note "On the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Massachusetts; check letter *B'; face plate No. 124; A. W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury; Frank White, Treasurer of the United States; portrait of Cleveland. "This counterfeit is apparently printed from photomechanical plates of poor workmanship. The portrait of Cleveland is particularly poor, and the lathe work is not well defined. It is on a single piece of paper, red and blue ink lines serving to imitate the silk fiber of the genuine. The seal and numbering on the face of the note are much lighter blue than the genuine. The number of the specimen at hand is A21059156B. This counterfeit should be readily detected." Very truly yours, BEN.T. STRONG, Governor
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