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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 in the real thing...
...come under the head of counterfeiting? The Swiss court last week decided that it did not. On the grounds that the British gold sovereign, whether made in Britain or Milan, was no longer legal tender, and hence not really money at all, the court refused to extradite Money-Makers Beraha and Bernardi to Italy, upholding the defense lawyer's claim that his clients were only making "knickknacks...
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