What do you imagine a super agent to be like? He must be strong, agile and unpretentious; a good marksman and a master of hand-to-hand combat. He's elegant and has a knack for winning women's hearts immediately. The men around him respect him and deep down fear him. 

Counterfeit money appeared almost immediately after real money. The history of money knows a lot of bright fakes, real masterpieces created by single masters and well-organized groups. However, the most close to the original counterfeits have always been issued by states.

Also counterfeiting has been a long-standing method of warfare.

Information  How a sheriff's deputy became the "heir" to pirate treasure and defrauded America.

The untold riches of gentlemen of fortune and now excite minds, and at the beginning of the XX century it was used by Deputy Sheriff Oscar Hartzell from the American Monmouth County.

The Italian sculptor-falsifier Alceo Dossena, whose name is associated with the most notorious scandal in the world of art of the first half of the twentieth century, was a genius of his work.

One May day in 1927, a grief-stricken elderly man sat in a small, shabby room, and beside him on the bed lay a woman who had just died. They were Alceo Dossena and his much-loved wife Maria. He had struggled in vain for her frail life - the unfortunate one had been ill for a long time, and in the end death had proved stronger. And now the inconsolable husband had not even money to bury her. Those to whom he had appealed for help had ruthlessly refused him.