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Just a few days after the euro was introduced in Europe, German police revealed that a 12-year old girl handed in a counterfeit 50 euro note she found on a train travelling from Cologne to Troisdorf.

?She noticed it was a forgery because it did not have any of the security features,? says a police spokesman. While the forgery was ?apparently… not very good,? it was ?printed on both sides, which is better than some forgeries you get.?

Later, German police revealed that a criminal used a fake 500 euro note made from photos cut from a euro information brochure to get change of almost 1,000 German marks in coins from a casino.
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