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COUNTERFEIT EUROS IN SPAIN

Ancient or modern coins; it doesn’t matter to authorities in Spain. They take their coinage seriously. Operation Pandora had to do with the illicit trade in ancient coins. Spanish authorities are also taking a dim view of people making their euros the hard way—through counterfeiting rather than by working to earn them.

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