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Forged Euro Bank Notes

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 3:12 pm
by ZEUS
On 22.1. the European Central Bank published figures showing that 311,925 counterfeit euro banknotes were removed from circulation in the second half of last year - a 30% increase on the first half of last year.

Overall some nine billion (genuine) euro notes and 49 billion euro coins are in circulation.


Read more:
http://www.izv.info/economic/news71997#2

Re: Forged Euro Bank Notes

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 3:14 pm
by Elmo
If only I could read some Russian... :x

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 3:21 pm
by Annie_in_exile
Hihi, they had a heading called Хорошие новости, which means "good news". :D How convenient, if you don't want to read about the wars and diseases and other catastrophies around the world.

Re: Forged Euro Bank Notes

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:55 pm
by thomas
Why not point the the original news at www.ecb.int and (for coins) to the EU Commission - all these and the German Bundesbank message can be found on my unquotable homepage ...