A rare collection of medals valued in the millions but considered priceless national treasures were recovered after they were stolen from New Zealand’s Waiouru Army Museum on December 2, 2007.
96 medals that were awarded to 12 of New Zealand’s most decorated war heroes were stolen, including:
- Nine Victoria Crosses
- Two George Medals
- One Albert Medal
The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest military decoration awarded for valour to members of the armed forces of several Commonwealth countries and previous British territories.
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The time, effort and expense of counterfeiting one dollar coins just doesn’t make sense.
It’s easy to at least understand a criminal’s motivation in counterfeiting rare and valuable coins. But the incentive to forge a daily and common circulating coin? It defies logic.
Yet, that’s exactly what happened with a New Zealand dollar coin. And there’s currently an investigation into counterfeit U.S. Presidential $1 coins, although it would boggle the mind if those were verified as fake.
The U.S. case has been covered and, so far, nothing is new. However, the New Zealand story is intriguing, although brief in detail.
New Zealand counterfeit dollar coin
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