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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9578

12 January 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/euro
Increase in number of counterfeit euro coins seized - Seizures of bank notes remains stable

Brussels, 11/01/2008 (Agence Europe) - Around 561,000 counterfeit euro bank notes and 211,000 counterfeit euro coins were removed from circulation in 2007, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the European Commission revealed on Thursday 10 January. The number of seizures of banknotes is in line with previous years (up 0.7% on 2006), but there was a significant rise in the number of coins seized (+26%). These numbers remain very small compared with the numbers of coins and banknotes in...

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