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2 stories tagged counterfeiting, newest first.

Screenshot of amusingplanet.com: The One Dollar Counterfeiter

The One Dollar Counterfeiter (amusingplanet.com)

321 points by cainxinth 5 months ago | 132 comments

Amusing Planet article on Emerich Juettner, an elderly New York immigrant who printed crude fake one-dollar bills for nearly a decade before the Secret Service caught him.

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Screenshot of shreevatsa.wordpress.com: Don’t mess with a genius (2010)

Don’t mess with a genius (2010)(shreevatsa.wordpress.com)

534 points by wglb 3 years ago | 130 comments

Blog post recounting the book Newton and the Counterfeiter, about Isaac Newton's career as Warden of the Mint hunting counterfeiters.

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#counterfeiting on Hacker News

The One Dollar Counterfeiter(amusingplanet.com)

Don’t mess with a genius (2010)(shreevatsa.wordpress.com)

The One Dollar Counterfeiter (amusingplanet.com)