Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Juan Blanco, post: 1575065, member: 41665&quot;]In the 1830s-1870s, due to the falling price of Platinum and increased supply, that PM (with a similar specific gravity) encouraged some Gold-coin counterfeiting. Those counterfeits were still partly Au, and the effort drilling out and refilling considerable. It was much more difficult than some might imagine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously, old Gold counterfeits (in Pt) were actually intended to pass as currency and not created &#039;to fool modern collectors.&#039;</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a newspaper report from 1842:</p><p><a href="http://noblemetals.blogspot.com/2010/07/usa-1842-counterfeit-coiner-caught.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://noblemetals.blogspot.com/2010/07/usa-1842-counterfeit-coiner-caught.html" rel="nofollow">http://noblemetals.blogspot.com/2010/07/usa-1842-counterfeit-coiner-caught.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I believe this is the background to that 1855 $3 counterfeit shown on Page 1:</p><p><a href="http://noblemetals.blogspot.com/2010/10/usa-1840-1860s-counterfeit-gold.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://noblemetals.blogspot.com/2010/10/usa-1840-1860s-counterfeit-gold.html" rel="nofollow">http://noblemetals.blogspot.com/2010/10/usa-1840-1860s-counterfeit-gold.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]216373.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>When the French Govt evaluated their coinage in the 1890s, less than 0.001% were fakes.</p><p><a href="http://noblemetals.blogspot.com/2010/10/uk-1876-counterfeit-gold-coins.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://noblemetals.blogspot.com/2010/10/uk-1876-counterfeit-gold-coins.html" rel="nofollow">http://noblemetals.blogspot.com/2010/10/uk-1876-counterfeit-gold-coins.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in