Starting in 1938, Emerich Juettner – also known as Edward Mueller –started counterfeiting one dollar bills.  That’s right, one dollar bills!  They were not particularly well made but then again, not that many people look at $1 bills closely. He used cheap paper and misspelled Washington as “Wahsington.” He passed a dozen notes a week around Manhattan being so careful it took the Secret Service ten years to track him down. His case file was 880 so he was known as Mr. 880, the title of the movie later made of his exploits. He was finally captured in 1948 and sentenced to a year in prison – and a fine of $1. Two years later, Hollywood released MR. 880 staring Burt Lancaster, Dorothy McGuire and Edmund Gwenn.  Ironically, Mueller made more on the movie rights than he ever did passing phony one dollar bills.

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