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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 42392, member: 112&quot;]NOS - I guess you don&#039;t understand this point; just because it is struck on an older coin does not make it a genuine issue. We don&#039;t even know if the older coin was genuine. Even if the older coin was genuine - that doesn&#039;t make the overstrike genuine.</p><p><br /></p><p>You see, at that point in time, the money in France was being revalued. And because of this new designs were being issued. So it was quite easy and highly profitable for the counterfeiters to use old counterfeit coins, overstrike them and pass them off as genuine new designs. All the designs had to be was close to looking like the new coins because the people were not yet familiar with them. </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s exactly what you have there - something that looks close to what it is supposed to look like. But that&#039;s all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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