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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 728799, member: 66&quot;]What makes you think they aren&#039;t?&nbsp; Before the latest boom in the production of fakes fom China, Russia was one of the biggest sources of counterfeits.&nbsp; Back in the 1960&#039;s it was the Middle East.&nbsp; There hav been fakes coming out of Greece and italy for ages.&nbsp; Now tha China has shown them the way Korean and Vietnamese fakes will probably not be far behind.&nbsp; One thing you have to look at are the laws of the various countries.&nbsp; In all of them it is illegal to make fakes of their own coins but in the countries that are well known for fakes there are no laws forbidding the production of fakes of someone elses coins.&nbsp; Most European countries though DO forbid the counterfeiting of other countries coins and currency.&nbsp; If you are going to counterfeit why not go to countries where it is legal and you know you won&#039;t be hassled by the police?</p><p><br /></p><p>Also to some extent once an area is known for producing counterfeits any fakes encountered tend to be blamed on them.&nbsp; It&#039;s like a lot of the legal reproductions of US coins made here are called Gallery Mint copies even if they are things like the modern coins such as the SVDB, 16-D dime 1856 FE cent etc that the Gallery Mint never made![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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