Money Counterfeiters (Legal and Illegal)

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Joseph Sternberg, Just Like the Real Thing; Counterfeiters are deft imitators of the government's own efforts to undermine the value of a currency. Wall Street Journal, Jan 28, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704721104576106742749041066.html
(book review on Ben Tarnoff, Moneymakers. Penguin Press, 2011)

Quote: "Colonial governments were chronic mismanagers—in one four-year period, from 1744 to 1748, Massachusetts printed money so often that it suffered a stunning 50% devaluation of its notes

Note:
(a) newspaperman (n): "a person who owns or is employed by a newspaper"

All definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(b) The article stated, "Noticing widespread fascination with a picture of a Confederate bill printed in a local newspaper, Upham bought the engraved plate from the paper."

The newspaper was Philadelphia Inquirer, which ran a story about how a representative from the paper had obtained an electroplate that could produce an almost perfect replica of a Confederate five dollar bill.
(c) The article then said, "Suddenly Upham's mementoes started working their way South, carried by Union soldiers on the march and blockade-runners on the prowl.

Union soldiers wanted to spread the fake to harm economy of the South. The North blockaded the South in the Sea; blockade-runners were Southerners who aimed to make quick profit by knowingly bringing in fake, in the process also undermining the South.
(d) facsimile (n; Latin fac simile make similar): "an exact copy"
(e) posse (n; Medieval Latin posse comitatus, literally, power or authority of the county): "a body of persons summoned by a sheriff to assist in preserving the public peace usually in an emergency"
(f) ne plus ultra (n; New Latin, (go) no more beyond): "the highest point capable of being attained : ACME"
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