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How The Great Train Robbery Worked

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The Prime Minister's Plan to Reissue Every Banknote in England

England went to a different type of decimal currency by like 1970 I think and that means that that money that was out there automatically became worthless. So one of the fun things that the Prime Minister tried to do because he was so upset about this was he tried to at one point or he didn't try to. He had the idea to reissue every banknote in England so their money would no longer be good. From what I understand most of the money was never recovered. But apparently they'd laundered it pretty quickly afterward so I don't know how much that affected them. They made it new money. However all of the robbers ended up saying like even if they got their cut like it

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