A ONE-MAN MINT
PROFITABLE TRADE IN “SMALLS” A maker of false coins, who must really have established a world’s record, has, after years of search by the Paris police, been laid by the heels. He is Joseph Gueule. At the police station he was quite frank. “For the past nine years,” he said, “I have been making half-franc, onefranc and two-franc pieces, and putting them into circulation at the rate of 200 francs a day. “My process is quite simple. I collect the tinfoil of bottle capsules, compress it, make it into coins, and bronze the pieces. The process is my own,” he added. Proudly he took some of his coins from his pockets. “Look at them. Aren’t they really wonderful imitations?” When the police visited Gueule’s “mint” they found 7,000 of his false coins. From his pockets they took 17,000 francs is genuine banknotes. “You see,” Gueule remarked when he was being searched, “it is a profitable business! ’
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 134, 27 August 1927, Page 12
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159A ONE-MAN MINT Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 134, 27 August 1927, Page 12
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