The link between Leeds and a failed Nazi plot to ruin the British economy with bogus banknotes during World War Two is revealed in a new exhibition. The Germans instructed teams of forgers to create counterfeit notes which could pass through banks undetected, with the aim of flooding the economy with fakes. Some of the bogus bills using the Bank of England's Leeds branch serial number feature in the new city display. Also on show are rare banknotes from when Leeds printed its own cash. Kat Baxter, curator of the exhibition at Leeds Museum looking at the evolution of money,...
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