Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

The public are cautioned against purchasing continental securities, signed John Pierce, Commissioner, as large quantities of them have been counterfeited, and are now circulating in this city. The forged ones are so executed as to deceive the sharpest eye; and were first detected by comparing them with the register's books in Philadelphia: but on a further examination, the texture of the paper where the original sum specified has been erased, and the fictitious sum inserted, is much injured, and may be discovered by drawing the thumb and finger across it, the forged ones being much thinner and smoother than the true ones.