Making Claim Chits in InDesign

I'm trying to construct a document that's basically a claim chit/coat check in InDesign: I want to run them off, 3 per page on 8.5" X 14" paper. I need to be able to place, twice, on each form, a unique 4-digit number (so that when someone leaves something with me, I can match the numbers up: one it the claim check/receipt, one is my copy).
I considered making a very large document (cause I'll need at least a couple hundred of these) and just starting the page numbers somewhere in the 1000-range, but since I need 3/page I doubt that will work. (I also considered using Acrobat to just print 3/page of the correct (4.5 X8.5 inch) document, but that could get tricky.
I could also generate a text-based list of numbers and just load place cursor/flow it all together, if each number is listed twice in the list.
Is there an easy way to do this?
Thanks.
I've realized I can do this with a data merge, which seems the simplest path to take, unless anyone can come up with a better idea.
Thanks!

CS -- through the PageMaker Plugin Pack -- and all following CSes (CS2, CS3, CS4, ... until Adobe runs out of imagination) all support paragraph numbering. So presumably, the easiest way is to let ID itself make the numbers.
.. if each number is listed twice in the list...
Make two separate stories of the numbered list
If that fails (I dunno, perhaps they didn't count on numbers in the thousands ...) you can always use the most simple spreadsheet to create a plain text file with all numbers, or run this little javascript... (hmm -let me think)
numberOfEntries = 1000; // Whatever...
a = app.selection[0];
if (a.hasOwnProperty("baseline"))
var theStart = prompt ("Starting number", "1000", "Enter starting number");
if (theStart == null)
alert ("Ha ha.");
else
theStart = Number(theStart);
str = "";
for (i=0; i<numberOfEntries; i++)
str += (theStart+i)+"\t"+(theStart+i)+"\r";
a.insertionPoints[-1].contents += str;
} else
alert ("Please place your text cursor inside a text frame first");
It will insert each number twice, with a tab inbetween.

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