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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 231159, member: 4373&quot;]Aidan, I disagree. You haven&#039;t seen any highly advanced counterfeit yet. Color, weight, mass is rather easy to fix if you have an extremely smart crook. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one coin currently discussed in coinpeople at the moment: </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/4557/1762934il0.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/4557/1762934il0.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/4557/1762934il0.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>At first glance, it doesn&#039;t look to be unusual, in fact seems to be real. However, die varities are studied and there is none to be found with that design. It&#039;s highly likely that a genuine coin, in this case a Peter III ruble was used and then a counterfeiter used it to strike a new design. </p><p><br /></p><p>The same is said with the Korean 5 yang as the planchet is similar to the Japanese Meiji silver coins. In one case that I have seen, it seems that a worn, if not purposely worn Japanese 1 yen coin was used. Color etc seemed to look &quot;ok&quot; and it is getting very difficult to just tell from first glance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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