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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mynter, post: 1556836, member: 40061&quot;]Hello,</p><p>faked Empire goldcoins are indeed a great problem, as large numbers where produced <i>legaly </i>between 1960 and 1975, when the law finally put an end to this. Fortunally the rim - inscription is very hard to get by for fakers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those contemporay fakes wich were ment for circulation are rather rare. When discovered they would have been distroyed , so most of them are gone. 2 mark was a huge amount at that time ,and by what I have learned the 2 - mark together with the 1 - mark was the most often counterfeited denomination. But according to newspapers of that time, even 10 - pfennig - coins were counterfeited.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find it very interesting to collect those fakes . For the first it is educating. You are better enabled to jugde if a dubious coin is genuine or not if tou have seen fakes aswell. Given the fact a thought that many german coins are quit expensive it is funny that you barely can find any literature on that matter, so the only way is buying fakes in order to study them. And I have to admit , this &quot; fake - hunt &quot; is just a little bit of fun as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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