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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 1770107, member: 31533&quot;]I agree that modern coins would be faked to pass as real money. Nothing like &#039;making your own&#039; (btw, I don&#039;t make my own or promote that). There will always be an element in society that thinks they are smarter than everyone else and that it would be easy enough to pass it out. And when coins aren&#039;t used as much as they were, like in today&#039;s society, then those sorts of persons will be looking to forge/fake other forms of money, like cc&#039;s, gift cards, blah blah blah or to fool investors. The biggest problem with faking money (coins) to pass as current money is that it is fairly small change, and it&#039;s getting harder for people to pass lots of the money in..... unless they can fool the change counting machines and don&#039;t mind giving up the 9 or 10 percent of the &#039;value&#039;. That or laundering it through some business as quarters or something could work, but again, to me, those place people in a particular place, so that if it caught, it would work against them.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I think perhaps collectors get caught up in this not because collectors buy the copies like you&#039;ve posted, but because the makers of them know that there will be a certain element that will buy them, and then &#039;innocently&#039; pass them off to someone who doesn&#039;t know enough to not buy them (like a coin seller who is not someone who collects it, or a pawn shop or off something) to make a small amount of money, and they get into the collectors areas. I can&#039;t see that there are enough &#039;collectors&#039; who want to put these fakes into their own collections.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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