Every counterfeiter likes to think that the stuff he turns out is just as good as the government's, but the government usually has the last word about that. Last week a Swiss court reviewed the case of two alleged counterfeiters, Yugoslav Zdravko Beraha and Italian Giuseppi Bernardi, who for months in Milan had been manufacturing British sovereigns* just as good as those once coined by the Royal Mint. With five helpers, the pair had turned out the coins at a rate of 1,000 a day from gold exactly as pure as that used...
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