Counterfeiting Current Circulating US Coins

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copper nickel daddy Pillar of the Community United States 2224 Posts	Posted 03/22/2012 1:26 pm I don't know if anybody posted a link to this article on here; if somebody already did then the Mods can feel free to delete this. Interesting article on the plague of counterfeiting current circulating coins, especially in the UK and Canada. Talks about how there are no government safeguards in place here in the US to keep the same thing from happening if and when dollar coins begin to circulate freely here. http://www.slate.com/articles/busin...eiting_.html Report this Post to the Staff

tokenmast Pillar of the Community United States 648 Posts	Posted 03/22/2012 2:07 pm nice link I work in/on Counterfeit Detection Report this Post to the Staff
SteveCaruso Pillar of the Community United States 1796 Posts	Posted 03/22/2012 3:43 pm The safegard is called the Secret Service, and I'm pretty sure that there will be a ramp up once the switch is made. This is why learning about fakes is so important in the first place. Edited by SteveCaruso 03/22/2012 3:45 pm Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 187996 Posts	Posted 03/22/2012 4:17 pm Quote: It's an ambitious plan, but there's a hidden catch: Adopting $1 coins may leave a half-billion-dollar hole in our pocket -- from counterfeiting. It is almost as if they want us to believe that the one dollar bill has never been counterfeited. Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
SteveCaruso Pillar of the Community United States 1796 Posts	Posted 03/22/2012 8:12 pm Never, jbuck! Never! http://boingboing.net/2006/09/20/co...ollar-b.html :-) (Edit: That actually was a fake $1 in the article. :-) ) Edited by SteveCaruso 03/22/2012 8:14 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Peter THOMAS Pillar of the Community Australia 2830 Posts	Posted 03/22/2012 9:09 pm some Australians on CCF have found counterfeit $2 coins in cirsulation, but I haven't detected any, yet. Report this Post to the Staff
gxseries Pillar of the Community Australia 3831 Posts	Posted 03/22/2012 10:44 pm I've found a counterfeit Australian 2 dollar coin in circulation so they do exist. My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseries My numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htm Regularly updated at least once a month. Report this Post to the Staff
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