Website review: Ninger Note |Futility Closet

illquitsomeday discovered this in Crime •9 reviews since Apr 3, 2008
crime •futilitycloset.com/2005/11/11/ninger-note/

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illquitsomeday discovered 4 months ago

From the page: "Counterfeiting was a lot harder in the old days. In the 1880s, Emanuel Ninger, known as "Jim the Penman," drew $50 and $100 bills by hand, spending weeks on each one. Fifty bucks was a lot back then, about $2,000 in today's money, so the effort was worthwhile. This also meant that his "work" ended up in the hands of rich people, and he actually gained a perverse following who realized the forgeries' value as works of art. He drew this note in 1896, just before the Secret Service nabbed him. He'd left a note on a wet bar, and the bartender saw the ink run. Ninger served six months and was forced to pay restitution of $1. He never forged again."