Brussels, 28/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - Nearly 100,000 forged coins were seized and withdrawn from circulation last year, states the Commission's 2005 report on combating counterfeit euro coins. This figure is very low compared to the number of euro coins in circulation (63 billion) and to the amount of counterfeiting of the old national currencies, but it does show increased diversification and sophistication of false coins. In 2004, a little over 74,000 forged coins had been taken out of...