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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JBK, post: 24497, member: 1101&quot;]I see why you are asking the question, but the truth is, just as you could conceivably counterfeit an old hammered style coin, you can also counterfeit a modern style coin as well.&nbsp; It is done all the time, and sometimes the end result is almost perfect (or, in some cases, absolutely perfect, but they would never be uncovered as forgeries, so we will never know about them).</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a little anecdote to illustrate the point.&nbsp; I recently won a counterfeit British pound coin on ebay offered by a seller in the UK.&nbsp; So, I asked an English guy at work if he had a few pound coins he could sell me so I could pay for the auction.&nbsp; When I scrutinized the coins he gave me, I realized upon VERY CLOSE inspection that one of the coins was probably a forgery.&nbsp; After an hour or so of looking, comparing, etc. with a real coin of the same date, I realized that it was indeed a counterfeit.&nbsp; The only way I could tell was because I happened to have a coin of the same date and compared the edge lettering and saw the crudeness of the fake one.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So, this coin was floating around as genuine, and I bought it off my friend to pay for a counterfeit pound, but the coin I was going to use as payment was fake as well. I think it as a two for one deal.&nbsp; I guarantee that 99.999999% of the people would never suspect that pound coin was fake, and if I did not already have a collection of fakes, I would not have known it either.&nbsp; It was minted just as a modern coin is minted, so it was only the sloppy edge letter formation that gave it away.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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