(n.)
Oleaginous ink is a type of greasy, destructible ink invented in the 1820s by Joseph Dixon (1799-1869) for the purpose of thwarting counterfeiters. When lithographic copying is attempted on a note with oleaginous ink, the transferred print is blurry and unusable. It was one of the first security printing measures used to prevent the forging of United States paper money.
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