counterfeit money
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money that was created illegally
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- Strafgesetzbuch
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- legal tender
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- money counterfeiting
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Encyclopedic overview
A counterfeit United States series 1974 $100 bill, over-stamped with "Contrefaçon" on both sides. On display at the British Museum, London.
Counterfeit money is currency produced outside the legal sanction of a government, usually in a deliberate attempt to imitate currency and to deceive its recipient. Counterfeit money is a form of fraud or forgery, and is illegal across the world. The business of counterfeiting money is one of the oldest forms of fraud: plated copies (known as Fourrées) have been found of Lydian coins, which are thought to be among the first Western coins.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “counterfeit money” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.