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Pillar of the Community
Canada
632 Posts |
Be aware that criminal forgeries of the Armistice and the McDonald twoonies are circulating in Quebec and Ontario respectively.
The rings of the forgeries are cupro-nickel, therefore non-magnetic while the cores are copper-rich brass.
Ownership and commerce of these pieces are criminal offences.
The Armistice is well documented and discussed in NumisCanada
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
5589 Posts |
Contact Mikey if they are on ebay. He may have some already and can explain any markers that are there. |
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
632 Posts |
These are not the usual Chinese fakes made for the collector's market. These are made to defraud the Treasure: not one piece here and another there - probably thousands were produced and are beginning to flood the commerce, not ebay. Markers? Wrong obverses, lighter, non-magnetic, no edge lettering, bad copies of the original devices, etc.etc. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Sometimes you wonder about bad guys, they take all the time to produce a fake and they choose to create a special limited design rather than the original polar bear.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1984 Posts |
They chose the special one because people don't see them often and would be less likely to know it was counterfeit?
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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The forgery problem £1 coin got so bad in the U.K, that they had do an entire re design with a bi metallic planchet.
That what happens when the government goes cheap with a base metal high value coin, but the public has to accept them on confidence, just like paper money.
One way of looking at it, is that the Government is being dishonest in the first place.
As a result, an opportunity then presents itself, for the dishonest members of the Public to make, circulate and profit from forged base metal high value coins.
Even the Roman government went down that track, by issuing plated denarii, just to fool the Public.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
5324 Posts |
If you counterfeit a 2 million strike coin that is kind of hard to find in the wild when there's many million of the regular polar bear design.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21788 Posts |
The problem in the U.K. is that in 2014, The Royal Mint estimated that as many as 3% of the £1 coins in circulation were counterfeit. That's why the change to bi metallic had to be made. Edited by sel_69l
09/15/2019 06:11 am
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2301 Posts |
ty, I want 1 of each if available.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1463 Posts |
It would be cool to have one for study
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Valued Member
Canada
306 Posts |
Edited by castor
09/16/2019 9:32 pm
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Posted 09/14/2019 3:15 pm
