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Counterfeiting is probably as old as money itself. Before the introduction of paper money, the main way of doing it was to mix base metals in what was supposed to be pure gold or ...
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Making money the easy way: by making money ... The classic movie cliché of the ink-stained master engraver painstakingly touching up his counterfeit printing plates has now given ...
United States Secret Service: Counterfeit Division
Counterfeit Division The Secret Service has exclusive jurisdiction for investigations involving the counterfeiting of United States obligations and securities.

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Counterfeiting, criminal offense of making an imitation of an article with intent to defraud others into accepting it as the genuine item. The term counterfeit is used most frequently to denote imitations of coined money or of the paper currency of a government or a bank, but it is applied also to other cases of fraudulent imitation, such as spurious trademarks, dies or works of art.