Coins DIG

Three students aged seventeen and who have been living in Long Island, were arrested after police caught them printing fake ten, twenty and fifty dollar bills. The place where the printing took place was the back of a pickup truck.

Mark Berg was able to discover the first three $10 notes dated 1837 and launched by the Saginaw City Bank. The three banknotes feature serial numbers 1, 2 and 3. All of the ten dollar notes are in perfect condition.

Back in 1836 Saginaw City's founder, Norman Little, was the president of the bank and signed these banknotes Dec. 26, 1837, which is exactly 170 years ago.

For the first time Malta's Christmas stamps will be part of an issue which will be partnered with Philatelic and Numismatic Bureau of the Vatican.

In the period between the 17^th and 19^th of October, the H.R. Harmer Inc. auction presented material, which was originally came from the American Bank Note Co. archives. Among this material there was an exclusive sample book of Russian bank note proofs, which received the highest honors at the auction.

Austrian Stefan Ruzowitzky, being inspired by the autobiography of Adolf Burger, who was one of those surviving the Holocaust, created a film called The Counterfeiters. Ruzowitzky's film tells its viewers a true story of Operation Bernhard, which was the biggest counterfeiting operation in history.