Million dollar counterfeiting
The business of the Million dollar counterfeiting (which draws its name from the estimated entire amount of counterfeited pullings) rises from the diffusion, with the Canada, between March and May 1880, of forgery Dollars of the the United States, of which forgery 5 USD of 1875, imitated particularly well.
In fact, an expert numismatist of Washington D.C, found himself by chance in possession of the one of these false dollars and considered it too quite printed to be honest. The imitations of the American ticket drew the attention of the Canadian authorities to the existence of counterfeited Canadian tickets. They were tickets a Canadian dollar or various tickets of various amounts (from 4 to 10 dollars) emitted by banks of the Ontario or other states.
The counterfeited tickets were so well realized that the banks honoured them. They were the work of the engraver, Edwin Johnson, which had engraved 21 plates and end up being stopped by a detective, John Wilson Murray, in 1880.
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