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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3526822, member: 112&quot;]Just to give you an example Lev, the Netherlands govt. had known for well over a 100 years that the Russians were counterfeiting their gold ducats. And no matter what they did they could never get them to stop. So, in 1849 the Netherlands decided to try a different tactic. By early in 1849 they had minted, I think it was something like 14,000 gold ducats dated 1849 - but then they stopped minting them. And when they stopped they sent a formal diplomatic message to the Russians, telling them they had stopped minting the coins, and asking the Russians to stop counterfeiting their coins. What did the Russians do ? They minted over 4 million of the Netherlands gold ducats dated 1849.</p><p><br /></p><p>If memory serves, it was not until 1868 that the Russians finally stopped counterfeiting Netherlands gold ducats.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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