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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collector1966, post: 576408, member: 17919&quot;]In Japan, they were having a problem not so much with forgeries (although I&#039;m sure they must exist), but with similarity with coins of neighboring countries that had a much lower value, particularly the South Korean 500-won coin, which is almost exactly the same size as the Japanese 500-yen coin, but the Japanese coin is worth more than 10 times as much. At one time, there was quite a scam going in which Korean 500-won coins would be altered just enough to make them acceptable in Japanese vending machines. Then the user would either buy a drink and receive change back in Japanese coins that were worth 7 or 8 times the value of the Korean coin, or sometimes they would just press the change lever and get a Japanese 500-yen coin in return. Since then, the composition of the 500-yen coin has been changed so that vending machines will no longer accept the older 500-yen coins (and their altered foreign substitutes).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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