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Show oo TREASURY DESTROYS COUNTERFEIT MONEY WASHINGTON, April 25 The treasury treas-ury department today completed destruction de-struction of nearly a ton of counterfeit coins representing a fictitious value of $50,000 bogus United States currency cur-rency of $75,000 face value, and about $2,000,000 counterfeit Mexican paper money, all seized by secret service agents within tho last year. This was tho largest single quantity of counter-felt counter-felt money destroyed for a number of years and represents tho unusually important im-portant captures in the past year, mainly on the Pacific coast. The currency cur-rency was burned and the coins, made principally of lead, was melted and will be used for window weights. |