European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday july 27, 1978 100 the stars and stripes Poge 9 b mor fun. Bogus Texas banknote warn it a Buck Van a. Duck you can i pats. However somebody tried to. And the Jerry Lewis Corker Wai accepted by More than one a non. Jerry Lewis Money is really funny  staff writer Frankfurt is wooden Nickels May be hard to pass these Days but a 100. Mark note with a likeness of Jerry Lewis still found takers before authorities no their hands on it. This Beauty got passed six limes said Helmut Kessler. Chief of the counterfeit Section of the German Federal Bank in Frankfurt. Kessler and a colleague Heinz Ludwig gel to look at More funny  or Mitten i Bloom Sas the germans Call them than anyone in the Federal Republic. Anything dubious that turns up at an Bank eventually ends up Here Kessler said. The Jerry Lewis 100-Mark note is not a grotesque exception among the paper that gets passed As the Coin of one realm or an other. The selection of counterfeits in Kessler archives evoke the entire Range of Emo Tion from admiration Lowright Stup Elac tmtsjT?4%thc magnificent Empire of Texas for one Hundred a a to be is to the Section of counterfeits people have tried to pass As lib us l1ssica � & Hill f i passed desp the the fact that it is signed by a Secretary of the  cant Cashly and the three on the Bill pulled out in dutch.  Kessler said. These monstrosities among the counter feits arc gag  he added. The people who printed them usually intended them to promote some Commer Cial venture. For example the Jerry Lewis Bill printed by Paramount to advertise film. But somehow a lot of this ludicrous stuff does get passed As genuine Money which proves people Are very ignorant or they Don t examine their change. If you rein a dark bar or restaurant you Don t examine your Money As a Rule. But i Don t want to go on record As saying thai it Only i or and Ludolf show 3 i my Loo to Lake swedish Kroner. A spa olm Sci Aelter gets passed in such  leafing through the collection which includes currencies from 30 countries., one finds a Large selection of Dollar Bills with porno pictures or humorous message where serious texts or faces Are tradition ally printed. Adding to the list of monetary madness. Kessler exhibits a hand drawn 1.000-Markbill which is a Marvel of workmanship. Fantastic in t it.1 it s the work of someone we Call. The Bull in Rembrandt of Munich he proved it Only lakes him eight hours to draw such a note and he Cando it from memory. When he told the court that he got a sexual thrill from counterfeit ing Money they decided he belonged in therapy and he s in a mental  Kessler said. Then Kessler pulled out several other hand painted Marks that looked As if they were made by very Untalan cd , even these things were  Kessler said. Clever in their workmanship were series of dollars that had their original value increased by skillful manipulation of the numbers in the Corners a changed to $100. $5lo �00."Many of these come from Poland. German ethnics migrating to Germany get this stuff in payment for their worldly goods that they cannot take with  said. Some of the false notes in the Bank s col Lection look so genuine that Only an expert can distinguish the bogus from the Genu Ine. Dollar falsifications number 600 to Date Kessler  its gallon of infamous Money the Bank has several so called Himmler Bills from the third Reich Era these were British 50-Pound notes primed in the concentration Camp at Oralien Burg for the purpose of undermining . Economy during the War. At the time they had a problem of find ing paper with the exact texture of the British  Kessler  spies found out that the Brit ish were using old military uniforms tomake the paper. The nazis then secretly bought old uniforms brought them to Ger Many and copied the  the entire idea was lame brained. In time of War. Money Means very Little be cause everything is rationed. So you can Truin the Economy with false Money. The British understood his and dropped counterfeit ration cards on  Kessler said but the Lake British pounds served one purpose the nazis paid off at least one of their Arch spies with it the spy known As  who worked As a Butler and Spain the household of the British Consul in Turkey fled to i Razil when he was discovered he had a bag full of the the bogus Money and wat soon arrested by brazilian authorities Cicero returned to Germany after the War and has been suing the German government for the Money Ever since Accord ing to Kessler. The latest Rumor is that Cicero died in Munich recently the tricks of passing counterfeit Money Are manifold. Kessler said think it s not unfair to say that the greed of Many merchants is often  asked if the average citizen who finds out he has gotten a phony Bill and realize she must take the loss because the Bank will not replace it with genuine Money does try to pass it on before he gets stuck with it Kessler laughed and said he was afraid that was the Case. But. If you re caught and it is prove you knew the Bill or Coin was fake you fare imprisonment or at least a fat  Are several Way to re Cognize counterfeit Money but they Are rarely presenting the mind when you re making a Mone tary  German Federal Bank advises that German Bills Are fairly Crisp to the , soft or very smooth notes should be  is a Watermark on each Bill in the form of a head in several grading of Light and Shade it can be seen upon holding it up to a Light and should show soft  notes with erasures or Greasy spots in the space for the watermarks Are always suspect. Kessler said. By the Side of the Watermark there is metallic Security filament vertically embedded in the paper and clearly visible As a dark Shadow when the banknote is Holdup to Light. The filament can be detached by Means of a Needle or the like. If this fila ment is missing or faked by a dark pen filed line or by a crease the note May Betake. The note designs must be neither smudged nor blurred they must show the drawing clearly and distinctly even in de tails. The portraits Call for special  forged Bank notes they Are almost always somewhat distorted and strike the critical observer with the changed expression of the  Borders of the note s designs the lines and patterns must be uniformly Sharp. Lettering must be Correct. Distinct Clear Cut Fetters proper spacing of the words in the inscriptions etc., Are characteristics of genuine notes. With coins the German Federal Bank advises several trots. Genuine coins of i pfennig. 50 pfennig and up to s mar shave a Clear pure sound when struck upon a hard surface. The plated coins at i. S and 10 pfennig have a much duller  fake coins Are made of alloys and have a very Dull sound. It is also possible to write on paper with counterfeit coins that contain Lead and tin if you remember All that chances Are that you won t have counterfeit Money palmed off on you. A spokesman for the american express International banking corp in Frankfurt said their problem with counterfeit Money was  we had about j1.425 in counterfeit passed Over the past our months. At the same time. I estimate that our Cash Flo going both ways Over the counter was about $800 million. So you see. It s no prob Lem at  the spokesman said. And. He added they Haven t had Jerry Levis passed on them yet