Reply #3: This is very strange. Funny part is, if they're fake it's only mildly strange. If real? Heh.

[Poll_Blind]

The fact that among them were the afore-mentioned 249 "bonds" worth 500-million dollars each makes it...well, stranger-yet. I wonder if there wasn't some mistranslation in the 500-million...as in not dollars but something else.

You don't counterfeit million-dollar bills. And you don't counterfeit hundreds or fifties. Hell, if you're smart, you don't even counterfeit twenties or tens. You counterfeit 5 dollar bills, cause no one is going to look twice at it.

So either all of these are real or they're not. No in-between.

And no matter what you counterfeit, you don't pass them off to institutions which are experts in these sorts of financial instruments.

Very, very strange. Why not send a diplomatic pouch if you've got something as bizarre as that to move? I'm sure many are familiar with how the Hope Diamond was moved from Africa to the UK but those days, one would imagine, are over.

PB