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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 4430873, member: 31620&quot;]I have heard this said many times. Recently (2004 and again in 2009) people were not willing to believe that it would be worth the effort for modern counterfeiters to make fakes to salt into batches of uncleaned coins, to sell as premium uncleaned coins etc. Yet they did. They made the coins and then artificially treated them to give the impression of uncleaned coins. A lot of effort for low value per item.</p><p><br /></p><p>If there is a shortage of local currency then I can see people taking a coin in hand and creating &quot;local copies&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>How closely did people look at individual coins? Were they good enough to pass the casual observer? This was evident in the UK where there were approximately 1.6 billion fake £1 coins in circulation leading up to 2017 when it was replaced. The quality of these £1 fakes improved over time from crude casts that were spray painted through to being a close enough alloy to fool vending machines.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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