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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1630319, member: 12789&quot;]The Chinese get leeway?&nbsp; Huh?&nbsp; If it really was as big a problem as you think it would be, believe you me, they would not get leeway.&nbsp; A few Chinese counterfeiters crossed over into making forgeries of circulating Chinese coins - and found out the hard way that the authorities in China suddenly take notice really really quick.&nbsp; People in the USA have this concept that the Chinese counterfeit American or other goods exclusively.&nbsp; Actually it is a bigger issue, in China consumers have to worry about fake drugs, food items etc.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The Chinese don&#039;t because it would not even be economically viable for even them to fake such ordinarily low value items.&nbsp; But indeed there are fakes out there - but not made by people looking for profit - but rather for the thrill of doing it.&nbsp; But in the few places like Ecuador that Sacagawea dollars circulate there are numerous decent enough forgeries popping up that are apparently being made and distributed by Colombian drug cartels into the Ecuadorian market.&nbsp; I am sure that the US authorities are aware of it, but there is the whole jurisdiction thing, the fact that the coins are fairly low value, and will likely never reach US shores let alone circulate in the US.&nbsp; The same cannot be said for the North Korean &quot;supernotes&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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