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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 3332517, member: 4373&quot;]Hi! I have been hiding under a hole. Found a box of coins I stashed away perhaps a couple of decades ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a coin that I pulled from circulation when I was in France - I am guessing late 1990s. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.omnicoin.com/coins/930393.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>You can tell something is really wrong with this coin - the inner core is not flat with the outer ring with poor details. Magnetic, weight 6.50g. This is quite interesting as it shares similar characteristic with a genuine coin - inner core is magnetic and a genuine coin weight is 6.50g. Details on this &#039;coin&#039; is quite blunt and has poor edge. </p><p><br /></p><p>I believe the face value of 10 franc is roughly around 2USD. I guess it&#039;s a wake up call that bi-metal coins have been counterfeited and weight can be manufactured very similar to a genuine coin. And this happened more than a couple of decades ago. Today&#039;s counterfeiters skills would easily exceed this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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