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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 115254, member: 4373&quot;]Ian, indeed I can understand every single painful point as you have said. It is true that no coins is any longer safe from being counterfeited and perhaps, ridicious modern commemorative coins will be counterfeited too if the prices are right. </p><p><br /></p><p>Honestly, what does worry me is how low can this counterfeiters go. One of the counterfeits that I have in my collection is a Malaysian 20 sen, which is just a merely 5USD cents!!! Although again I must stress that modern counterfeited coins should not be circulated if you know it is fake, nor considered as &quot;collectable&quot;, although it might be very interesting for study purposes. </p><p><br /></p><p>Indeed, it is funny how the world decided to deal with counterfeited coins. Counterfeited gold-plated platinum coins are always an excellent example, together with the Swedish 5 kopek pieces. Perhaps, because they were so harshly dealt with and removed from circulation when spotted, that make such coins valuable, as they managed to circulate and still remain available for sale?</p><p><br /></p><p>The best several tests against counterfeited coins of course is what Ian have mentioned but lately, modern counterfeiting trends are exceeding worrying as counterfeiters themselves have the knowledge of what went wrong for them. They know how to melt down previous coinages just to fix the alloy content, and there are data tables of what the coin specifications should be. Although it is said to be difficult to handle, it no longer is necessarily true, specially when it comes down to the notorious counterfeited Italian coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>I really wonder if there is a major revolution against counterfeiting coins, such as hologram coins, but that has already been defeated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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