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- Printed by the Bank Itself Alves dos Reis, Waterlow & Sons, and the Banknote Fraud That Shook Portugal · Liszt Think
In 1925, a Lisbon clerk with a forged Oxford diploma orchestrated the largest banknote fraud in history.
- The Forged Pedigree…erformance that would prevent anyone from looking too closely. Reis began with the physical. He obtained blank parchment from a supplier in Porto, selecting a stock that matched the weight and color of academic diplomas he had examined in the national library. The watermark presented…
- The Contract from the Bank of Portugal…e acquires through decades of use, had become the missing component in a scheme that had occupied his imagination since his imprisonment in Porto. To execute what he had conceived, the metal plates would need to be retrieved from guarded vaults, the heavy presses prepared for producti…
- The Consul’s Signature…remained in circulation, passing from hand to hand, generating the commerce and confusion that would eventually attract the attention of a Porto newspaper and a bank inspector who would not be hypnotized by procedure. The consular seals had opened the door. What walked through could…