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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 2146859, member: 1765&quot;]<img src="http://home.comcast.net/~john.baumgart/78v9-3348.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>March 11, 1878, 3:15 pm.&nbsp; The first of Morgan dollars were struck at this time with assorted brass present for the festivities.&nbsp; Meanwhile, in Portland, OR, by way of Spokane Falls, WA (the newspaper below erroneously says Idaho), a U.S. Marshal finally had a counterfeiter, L. M. Rima, in custody who had been suspected of making fake $5 gold pieces out of a gold/tin alloy.&nbsp; His partner was already in prison.&nbsp; (See article on right side of page 1 of the St. Paul Daily Globe.)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025287/1878-03-12/ed-1/seq-1/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025287/1878-03-12/ed-1/seq-1/" rel="nofollow">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025287/1878-03-12/ed-1/seq-1/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>After reading the article, I searched for L. M. Rima, and found this obituary, which seems to be a match for the arrested Rima, but omits the whole counterfeiting arrest bit.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/MNDOUGLA/2002-09/1032061621" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/MNDOUGLA/2002-09/1032061621" rel="nofollow">http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/MNDOUGLA/2002-09/1032061621</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I also found that he was on the first city council of Spokane (then Spokane Falls), WA, in 1881, so perhaps it&#039;s a different, but related person.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I wonder how the trial went. Would love to have one of those contemporary counterfeit $5s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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