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America’s worst counterfeiter forged $1 bills for a decade

Ellsworth Toohey
May 06, 2026
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Emerich Juettner spent nearly a decade printing one-dollar bills in his New York kitchen, and the U.S. Secret Service spent nearly a decade unable to catch him. According to Kaushik Patowary at Amusing Planet, Juettner’s bills were terrible. Wrong paper, poor ink, blurry engraving, occasional spelling errors. But he only printed singles, and he only spe…

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