Word: graetz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine years ago, a number of the most important men in Hungary including Prince Louis of Windisch-Graetz and the chief of police of Budapest, thought up a very simple scheme for "rehabilitating the finances of Hungary." It was nothing less than printing trunkloads of large lavender French 1,000-franc notes at the Hungarian State Cartographical Institute and dumping them in France and Holland. The forgeries were excellent, but the forgers forgot that all French 100-and 1,000-franc notes that come from the Bank of France are counted by hand and pinned together in bunches...