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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 3332651, member: 39&quot;]Oh well, these days I am not all that concerned about coming across counterfeited coins in &quot;everyday&quot; life. (The old £1 piece in the UK, not bimetallic, was badly affected though.) Here in Germany the Bundesbank reported 33,000 fake pieces for 2018. Population is 83 million, so that would be one coin per 2,500 people. Guess it is similar elsewhere in the euro area.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course not every piece gets noticed and reported. But banks in the EU have been <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32010R1210&amp;qid=1403008605645" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32010R1210&amp;qid=1403008605645" rel="nofollow">required</a> since late 2010 (end of transition period: 1/1/15) to check the authenticity of the coins they handle. Sure helped, but has made cash handling more expensive.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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