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If you're looking for the most valuable forgery/con in history, a good candidate is the Donation of Constantine[1], a forged document which claimed to transfer
by ajb 2y ago
If you're looking for the most valuable forgery/con in history, a good candidate is the Donation of Constantine[1], a forged document which claimed to transfer sovereignty over western europe to the pope.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donation_of_Constantine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donation_of_Constantine
- t_mann 2y agoAnother good candidate: the Privilegium Maius [0], which contained several provisions to elevate the status of the House of Habsburg and their territories in central Europe and helped them rise to the first tier of European aristocrat families, where they remained for 500+ years (interestingly, despite the forgery being recognized as such almost immediately). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilegium_Maius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilegium_Maius
- ajb 2y agoInteresting, a good candidate. It would be nontrivial to compare them.