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An amateur Swiss archaeologist and his metal detector have found a hoard of nearly 1,300 Roman coins from the 4th century AD.
A 50-year-old man was convicted in Switzerland after spending £10,000 on prostitutes using fake money he printed himself. The money was so poorly made 'a blind man could see it wasn't real', according to the Basel County court president. His ruse was discovered when one of the women tried to deposit the money into her bank account the day after mistakenly accepting the forgeries. When the ATM refused to accept the cash, the woman, 39, reported the odd looking notes to the police. The 39-year-old woman told Basel's criminal court that she had accepted the strange counterfeit notes...