Counterfeit Coins

I agree, but when I started this thread it was not only to acknowledge the problem, but to see examples of counterfeits to school myself up, and for others to see examples so we would not be spending money on KNOWN examples, and to educate ourselves on how to tell the difference.. However one member stated(and I have heard it before)
there's some kind of copy write or something about permission to post pictures of them? ISN'T THAT KEEPING US IN THE BLIND? I mean they can make them why can't we exploit the knowledge and pictures of what they are producing? Yes I know too, I followed as many of you did, the secret cam pics of
"inside the Chinese presses" that's not the correct title but you all know what I mean...... It seems you can put it online, but only a few pictures have I seen when asking the question.......and many have coins that have become known now to be fakes.....Is there some kind of
permission or something that keeps a real flow info and pictures identifying there coins and how to detect them?
OR
is it in fact if we talk about them then they can make them even better? and let the public suffer? for the endgame........
What is the truth about this all

Thanks......and check the copy write thing or mayby someone can chime in if its NOT OK......Gene

It's not just coins, the Chinese counterfeit everything from ladies handbags to ink pens. It's a huge PITA for the companies that actually make the items being faked.
The PRC government doesn't give a rip. As long as it brings money into the country, they don't care about the markets they flood with cheap shoddy junk, fake items or even items that harm the health of the user.

They even counterfeit toothpaste as happened a couple of years ago with the poison Colgate.

That's not the only place littered with fakes. I buy various antiques/collectibles from antique malls to resell. In every one of these places I go I see fakes; most are identical down to the makers marks. That's only counting the types of items I know about. I'm sure there are plenty I'm not expert enough to spot.

I think fake coins are annoying and a big problem with coin collecting, but this is really the least of the worlds problems. While in Thailand and Indonesia you could buy all kinds of counterfeit clothing; Nike, Puma, Billabong, Holister, etc. All fake items sold for a fraction of the price.

Even in India they have laws that they can make perscription drugs with the exact same ingregients as pattented drugs; they just have to make them a different way, a different process...

With issues like these going on, I think stopping counterfeit coins will never stop.

On the baby milk fiasco, that was promptly handled by everyone; US govt., Chinese govt., importers/exporters. Swift execution of the perpetrators helped a lot. Had the trials taken place here, they wouldn't have taken place yet. It would be the typical delays, motions, high-profile lawyers, you get the drift.

In some instances the fakes are really funny. For example someone at a coin show showed me a Morgan dollar with an 1875 date on it. It really looked real to me. I'm waiting for the Chinese to start making Lincoln Cents with dates in the 1800's though. At flea markets lately I've seen many knives with Swastics on them and it says on the blade China. Some time ago I purchased an ORIGINAL Black Forest Hunting Knife and on the blade is had Japan on it.
It will never end with coins now that the hobby is as big as it is.