185 politically motivated counterfeiting

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"Politically motivated counterfeiting involves the deliberate distribution in one country of counterfeit money and other documents of economic importance by a hostile country. “It might be done either to disrupt the economy by monetary means,” writes Professor Thomas C. Schelling, “or to create such a prevalence of counterfeit as to cause loss of confidence in the currency.” Murray Teich Bloom reports that “counterfeiting an enemy’s coinage or currency has been a tactic of most wars since 1470 when the wily Duke Galeazzo Sforza of Milan used it against Venice.”"...

((Sharp, Gene. The Politics of Nonviolent Action (p. 433). Albert Einstein Institution. Kindle Edition.))

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