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E-SYLUM ARCHIVE
COUNTERFEIT KING'S HISTORY CHANNEL SEGMENT
Last week we discussed counterfeiter Louis B. Colavecchio
"The Coin", who made near-perfect counterfeit tokens for casino slot
machines and was later a hired as a consultant to the Federal government
to explain why his dies outlasted those at the U.S. Mint. Jim Neiswinter
notes that Colavecchio was featured in a History Channel episode.
-Editor
Jim writes:
The story about the guy from Rhode Island making his own
slot tokens is my favorite History Channel story. Did you know that
they used Bob Hoge as an expert on minting?
I haven't seen the episode (but thanks to my kids I can
recite dialogue from nearly any Disney channel program...) The episode was
part of a series titled Breaking Vegas. Did anyone see it?
Wayne Homren, Editor
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