Counterfeit Toonies Are Going To Be A Significant Problem

I apologize. Again I'm new to coins and I didn't meant to offend. Your taking my story and twisting it... I went into the bank because they would know more then me and I'm a in person kind of guy. I didn't know anyone working at the bank, and as I said in my post I said I think this is a fake going in. I didn't ask for a real toonie in replace it was just given. After which I said hey are you looking for the fakes. Because behind the screen and the teller there was a guy looking through rolls of toonies. From there we got talking and I simply made a friend(even during these covid times) I did not try to pass of fake money or lie in any way. I simply went into a financial institution, asking about facts and information. What I posted afterwords was only my experience and what I was told and researched. I did not mean to say using fake coins is ok or anything of the sort. To get a fake coin makes you a victim of the issue it self. But me posting about an experience when I'm just learning about coins and showing interest and I get this attack as if I'm being a racist or something... I don't need that and that's not why I joined here. If this is some super tight close community I am not trying to prove myself to anyone. I simply am displaying my interest in the subject.

You're not being attacked. This is a discussion board where you have made wrong assertions that passing these coins is legal.

You're being told that you are wrong repeatedly and you are not accepting this fact. How is that being attacked?

It doesn't matter what the retail clerk told you. They are wrong and misinformed, they are humans who can also make mistakes. Above all, the law is the law. Owning and passing these coins is illegal.

What the tellers likely meant to tell you, is that yea you could probably use these coins and it is likely you are not going to get in trouble. But according to the law, it is illegal. End of story, do not reply to this thread with "but...."

Your assertion that until the Royal Canadian Mint deems something counterfeit, it is legal to use, is absolutely nonsensical hogwash. So if I bought myself a coin press right now, made $3 million in new-security style counterfeit toonies that have never been made before or acknowledged by the mint...that I can now legally go use them in the period until such a time that the Mint acknowledges its existence? BSOLUTELY NOT.

This news article from months ago even states, the mint is "looking into it" and has yet to receive one of these counterfeit coins and that the mint is the only one who can say that these coins are fakes. No one in Canada has the power to do that except the mint. There for they are still aloud to continue circulating. And banks continue to use them

The banks are the problem also. They are not going to set aside thousands of dollars in twoonies knowing that they are never going to get them replaced by the mint. It will cut into their profits.

There is an investigation going on believe the mint is working with the RCMP atm to find out more about this. But as I stated several times, the mint has knows about the suspected fakes for months now and has not declared these coins to be fakes. Only that they are aware of suspected fakes. The mint allows these coins to continue circulating so why wouldn't the banks. Untill the mint deems these coins fake then only someone with all the right equipment can find fakes and test them. I don't have the equipment. Also I'm not "part of the problem" all I did was went in looking for information and I shared that information with the forum. After which I was attacked as if I had done something wrong by letting my financial institution take the coin(after I told them I believed it was a suspected fake) but you have all been coming at me like I made these fake coins and continue to allow them to circulatate. If I get a fake coin from a corner store I can tell them it's fake and request a new toonie, then the coin goes back in there till for some one else to get and circulation continues. If I give it to the RCMP then I loose any money I get that's fake and there is clearly alot of them because iv come across two of them out of mayb 8-10$ iv gotten in toonie since posting about then. (I don't use cash much atm due to covid) so to me the most responsible thing I can do is report them to my financial institution and have them advise me on what to do if I come across them. At least if the bank has them they may be put aside. Also what if you got a bunch of rolls of toonies at the bank and they were all fakes? Do you just accept the loss of hundreds of dollars because the ones responsible for your financial security gave you a bunch of fakes? I'm a citizen and working class. But this forum is scrutinizing me for turning in a fake to my bank(telling them it's a fake)

Also I'm not sure if he was just a bank teller or not. Because when I say drawer I don't mean at the front of the counter. After we started talked he asked me to come into the back into his office where he had some coins he had put aside for his own possible collection. But it was an office so I doubt he was just a teller. Sorry for the book of a post by the way, after posting these I was like wow that's alot to read lol.

The banks here are inspecting all toonies that are deposited and confiscating all counterfeits. Small business and people are losing!!!! Your concepts and comments are not thought through. Any counterfeiting destabilizes our monetary system. The authorities have mishandled this as you are. You get defensive when your asinine comments are challenged. The police are the issue here. If it had been a $5 or $10 dollar note warning would have been all over the press. Do not ever tell an individual to sell or offer a counterfeit coin knowing it is counterfeit. That is against the Law.