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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 830530, member: 39&quot;]Umm, here in Germany we had such a case in the mid-1970s. The director of the Karlsruhe mint, somebody from the administration (deputy director, I think), and a worker made about 1,700 &quot;copies&quot; of rare pieces, dated roughly 1950-1970. They had &quot;customers&quot; who were apparently willing to pay high prices for such rarities ...</p><p><br /></p><p>At some point a coin dealer thought that some pieces were &quot;fishy&quot; (odd combination of dies), the police/DA investigated, the case went to court (1976-78), and the three were sentenced. Was a major story back then. Interestingly the court decided that the unauthorized pieces were not counterfeits but, well, coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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