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Counterfeiting. Penalty. 1 year and 1 day in prison and $1 fine. Emerich Juettner (January 1876 – January 4, 1955), also known as Edward Mueller or Mister 880, was an Austrian-American immigrant known for counterfeiting United States $1 bills and eluding the United States Secret Service for a decade, from 1938 to 1948. [1]
- Emerich Juettner, January 1876, Austro-Hungarian Empire
- Counterfeiting United States currency
Mister 880 is a 1950 American light-hearted romantic drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Burt Lancaster, Dorothy McGuire and Edmund Gwenn. The movie is about an amateurish counterfeiter who counterfeits only one dollar bills, and manages to elude the Secret Service for ten years.
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Apr 10, 2010 · The Strange Case of Mister 880. How the search for a prolific counterfeiter of one-dollar bills ended up lasting ten years. Snopes Staff. Barbara Mikkelson. Published April 10, 2010. Claim:...
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Jun 30, 2020 · A dramatization of Juettner’s counterfeit operation, as seen in the 1950 film, Mister 880 (20th Century Fox) One morning in November of 1938, he snapped pictures of a $1 bill, transferred the images to a pair of zinc plates (using, among other things, a bath of acid), then meticulously filled in small details of the bill by hand.
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Jan 11, 2023 · Emerich Juettner: the Most-Wanted and Unusual Counterfeiter in U.S. History. Mister 880 was also the oldest and worst counterfeiter of all time, but it took ten years and millions of dollars to catch him. by Irena Curik | Jan 11, 2023 | Culture
Ever Wonder Why? The Weird Story Of Mr. 880, The 1$ Counterfeiter. 395. SHARES. Facebook Twitter Subscribe. In 1938, the owner of a cigar store in New York went to the bank to deposit his daily income, only to be told by the teller that one of his one-dollar bills was fake.
Apr 3, 2011 · In fact, no self-respecting counterfeiter would even bother with so small a sum. It was not worth the effort. Nevertheless, a fake is a fake, so the Secret Service dutifully opened a file, No....
