These seem like great investments as this whole fiasco goes on http://www.thelocal.se/42760/20120822/
LOL. I read about this about a week and a half ago on an European based numismatic group news forum. That cheeky devil.....and the counterfeiters got it right.
Its actually an several month old story already that this idiot king keeps in the news through his own silly actions.
So the thing it to get one of the "counterfeits" (I would call them a counterfeit actually since there is no attempt to make them look like the original). They must have long term numismatic value. I can't wait until they catch these guys and put them on trial. We'll have fantastic news for years. Ruben
While I am not familiar with Swedish law, I don't think these pieces are counterfeits. Whoever "made" them took actual, original 1 krona coins and altered them. Now adding a zero to a banknote might be an illegal manipulation, but these are rather in the Hobo Nickel category, I think. Here http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/sa-kan-myntet-ha-tillverkats_7437946.svd you can see how it was done. In Germany for example such a piece would lose its legal tender status, but putting anybody on trial ... I strongly doubt it. The part that I am not sure of, however, is whether there is anything in Swedish law that makes it illegal to make fun about the head of state in such a way. And yes, of course it would be interesting to learn who made these pieces. Christian
I am actually looking forward to this trial, and expect everything to been on wikileaks, which BTW will be another circus trial happening at the same time. Scandinavia had not this kind of attention since the Vikings invaded half of central Europe and Moscow.
I'm glad they had "experts" look at these things to determine how they were made. Not visible to the naked eye? Just blowing up the poor images with the article you ace see that the were made with the hollow out and insert method.
Keep in mind that these are not counterfeits but made to get a message across. So whoever manipulated the pieces sure did that well enough for the coins to "pass" but then be discovered and laughed at ... or whatever. Of course it does not take an expert to tell that there is some kind of double rim. But Sweden also has commemorative 1 kr coins from time to time which have a different design. So why not have one with such a ring along the ring? And then you notice the inscription. By the way, no need to blow the image up yourself. Try this: http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/undersok-det-falska-myntet-sjalv_7437846.svd Click and hold the "+" to enlarge the view. Click on "Fullskärm" to get an almost-full-screen window. Christian
