Most Common Counterfeits

There are obvious fakes of the keydate coins floating around out there but it's surprising to know that the most commonly counterfeited coins are likely standard currency items. After all it costs about 60 cents to make a toonie (estimated) on a small scale but it's worth two bucks once it hits the market. Lots of articles on this out there.

Here's one of many many....

http://www.mackaymeters.com/Home/Ne...Default.aspx

I agree with you 1945V that silver coins are the most counterfeited. The pillar dollars more particularly the ones during the reign of King Philip V to Carolus III were the most copied be it contemporary counterfeit from silver plates, alloy cast, to a mere reproduction. It is sad to note that majority of the ones sold at ebay nowadays were all counterfeits (maybe around 60%). Before, thru some recorded facts and pictures you can easily identify counterfeits thru its laurel leaf edges. Nowadays you can acquire counterfeits having almost perfect laurel leaf edges and even weigh 27 grams or slightly lesser around 26.8 grams (these are the required weight of an 8 reales Dos Mundos as some call it). Forgers have achieved a high level of producing these fakes. I'll try to post some pictures on these for us to discuss more intensively...