thank you for this! cool history trivia.
of course, the imperialist warmongers today make the "internationalized" currencies of USD and EUR and don't have to bother faking other peoples' currencies anymore, but same effect...

SwearyDoctor

In 'War and Peace', Lev Tolstoy describes Napoleon issuing orders, including "one to deliver as soon as possible the counterfeit Russian banknotes prepared in advance for importation into Russia". And this is not the author's invention. The emperor really did use this tactic and not for the first time: Prior to the invasion of the Russian Empire, on his orders, Prussian coins had been minted and British and Austrian banknotes printed.

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>In 'War and Peace', Lev Tolstoy describes Napoleon issuing orders, including "one to deliver as soon as possible the counterfeit Russian banknotes prepared in advance for importation into Russia". And this is not the author's invention. The emperor really did use this tactic and not for the first time: Prior to the invasion of the Russian Empire, on his orders, Prussian coins had been minted and British and Austrian banknotes printed.