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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 38402, member: 112&quot;]First of all I was not speaking about ancients - I was talking more about the coinage of the 14th through 18th centuries. But I should have worded my statement differently. For I wasn&#039;t trying to say that the criminal element did not engage in counterfeiting coins at all - certainly they did. But I was speaking about a certain kind of counterfeit - the kind struck by those who had been granted the right to mint coinage by the government of the time, but yet directed not to strike coins of a given design. But they struck them anyway in defiance of the king. And those who issued coins of debased metal.</p><p><br /></p><p>This type of counterfeit is &amp; was far more prevalent than those found in plated base metal. But for whatever reason, in today&#039;s world this type of counterfeit is afforded a certain air of legitimacy that I do not feel they are deserving of.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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