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e arrested in the 1930s as a result of investigations by Secret Service agents Often these accounts were accompanied by photographs of fake notes and sometimes of the printing presses that churned out the fake cash One of the display cases features nearly a dozen items relating to several kings of counterfeiting William E Brockway Emman uel Ninger aka Jim the Penman Edward Mueller aka mister 880 and Victor Lustig aka Count Lustig All were involved in the production and use of fake paper money Brockway counterfeited U S paper money for 50 years during the late 19th century He and engraver Charles H Smith worked togeth er for many of those years Their specialty was 6 percent U S coupon bonds dated Nov 16 1861 Examples of Brockway and Smith s work are on display in the exhi