counterfeit currency

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Founded in 1865, the Secret Service started as part of the Treasury Department because its original mission was to combat counterfeit currency after the Civil War.

From Washington Times • May 6, 2020

“Freedom’s Detective” by Charles Lane revolves around the fascinating figure of Whitley, whom President Ulysses Grant soon appointed to head the Secret Service, a federal agency created in 1865 to squelch counterfeit currency.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2019

The central bank said that over Christmas, when there was a severe shortage of cash, there was also a surge in counterfeit currency.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2014

Publicly at least, there haven’t been major seizures of its drugs or counterfeit currency in several years, leading analysts to speculate that targeting the country’s illicit finances successfully crippled those particular earning schemes.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2012

The use of the microscope in the examination of United States currency is invaluable, and I believe the only perfectly reliable test for distinguishing counterfeit currency from the genuine bills.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)