Copies Of Coins

yes, but I believe it is legal to own them for legitimate purposes.

'Tis illegal to sell a counterfeit coin as a real one but not to possess a counterfeit.

I saw that all those old roman coins were fakes and sold on ebay never stamped copy or anything

Like 2-3 years ago ? from canada ? guy made $75,000 selling those fakes as " unearthed roman coins "

Claimed he new nothing about them coins just selling them . They came from china

Here is the catch he was cuaght deceving the people by calling them roman coins, and was busted for that
had he simply said these coins " are unearthed coins that appear to be from the roman time period " then disclosed He has no knowledge of the minting date, or when they were made,who made them he would have been just selling coins,

But instead he decieved buyer by claiming they were from certian time periods and named the coins roman coins

I always wonder just how many people have counterfeited coins in their collections and have no idea. There are so many counterfeited coins and in slabs that are fakes took, I could easily see many buying them and putting them in their Albums and never knowing they are fakes. I knew a dealer that was in the buisness for about 60 years that bought a counterfeited coin and didn't know it until he sent it to a TPGS. Think about that when you look at your so called most valuable coins. It's scarry.