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Key figures in the fraud were Francisco Gómez de la Rocha, a rich former corregidor of Potosí, and Juan Ramírez de Arellano, an assayer at the mint. Both of them were executed for their crimes, and other assayers at the mint were fined or removed from their positions. [5] The corregidor of Potosí was removed from his position and imprisoned.
Austrian Mint: 1194 State-owned National Bank of Austria [8] Belgium: Royal Belgian Mint: 1291 [9] Brazil: Casa da Moeda do Brasil: 1694 State-owned [10] Bulgaria: Bulgarian Mint: 1952 State-owned [11] Canada: Royal Canadian Mint: 1908 State-owned Chile: Casa de Moneda de Chile 1743 [12] China: China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation ...
Counterfeit money is currency produced outside of the legal sanction of a state or government, usually in a deliberate attempt to imitate that currency and so as to deceive its recipient. Producing or using counterfeit money is a form of fraud or forgery , and is illegal in all jurisdictions of the world.
The Saddle Ridge Hoard is the name given to a hoard of 1,427 gold coins unearthed in the western half of the Shasta Cascade region, of Northern California in 2013. The face value of the coins totaled $27,980, but was assessed to be worth $10 million.
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Coin-rolling related scams are a collection of scams involving coin wrappers (rolls of coins). The scammer will roll coins of lesser value or slugs of no value, or less than the correct number of coins in a roll, then exchange them at a bank or retail outlet for cash.
Two insurance companies have asked a court to block a $19.7 million claim by owners of more than two dozen forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings that were seized during an FBI raid at the Orlando ...