Robert Baudin (1918–1983) was a counterfeiter, conman and aerial photographer. Baudin was born in the United States. He started counterfeiting during the depression and World War II, after the war he "made" US$2,000,000 and eventually moved to Australia. He served a jail sentence in Australia for printing of currency. His autobiography is titled "Fake - The Passing Fortunes of a Counterfeiter." In 1980 he was acquitted of charges of extortion, when he flew his airplane at low altitudes around New York City, to protest against his publisher's editing of his book's American edition. He had undertaken a very similar protest with a small plane in Sydney, in 1969, just before his trial for counterfeiting. References Baudin, Robert. Fake - The Passing Fortunes of a Counterfeiter. Methuen of Australia (1977). American counterfeiters Australian counterfeiters 1918 births 1983 deaths American emigrants to Australia 20th-century Australian male writers Australian autobiographers