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Fake Notes(https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/02/magazine/new-york-stories-fake-notes.html)
A West Village Bar Crawl Leaves Behind a Trail of Counterfeit Green(https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/nyregion/a-west-village-bar-crawl-leaves-behind-a-trail-of-counterfeit-green.html)

Emanuel Ninger spent his days alone in an upper room of his New Jersey home, as any artist might do. But Emanuel Ninger was no starving artist. How could he be, when he spent his days developingthe art of counterfeiting?

The man the New York Times would call the "Pen and Ink Counterfeiter" perfected his craft to an art. He would place a piece of bond paper, cut to size, in water colored withcoffee grounds. The coffee gave the paper an appearance of moderate handling. Ninger wanted to avoid the attention that might be called to a crisp new note. Then, with an authentic bill under the wetpaper, Ninger meticulously traced the entire bill. After the tiny engraved lines were duplicated, he added the appropriate colors with a camel hair brush.

It was a counterfeit 1880 $50 note that sent Ninger to jail. On a damp March night in 1896 - just before boarding a ferry in Manhattan for his return to New Jersey - Ninger stopped in at a saloon.The bartender recognized him, and didn't hesitate to change a $50 bill. Soon after Ninger left the bartender noticed ink on his own fingers. He looked at $50 note, which had come in contact withmoisture on the bar.

Sure enough, part of the design was smudged. The counterfeiter was arrested - and after his trial, Emanuel Ninger served a few years in prison.

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https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/512786?page=13

A FORGER who ran a counterfeit mint and cheated York businesses and shops with his fake £20 notes, has been jailed.

Darren Lea Wilson, 31, used a laptop, Photoshopped internet images, a computer printer, shoe polish and other equipment to produce between 100 and 200 fake Scottish £20 notes at his sister's home,Laura Addy, prosecuting, told York Crown Court. They were apparently worth £2,000 to £4,000.

He took some of the notes to York where he deliberately chose low value items to buy and paid for them with fake notes so that he got genuine banknotes and coins in exchange. He was on bail at thetime for passing counterfeit notes in Sheffield.

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Forger jailed for cheating York shops(http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15312085.Forger_jailed_for_cheating_York_shops/)