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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 4611100, member: 26302"]Depends on intent. Did they make the coin to pass as a real coin in commerce, or to fool a collector? Then it is a counterfeit. Is it something like a 1964 silver dollar done by Daniel Carr? Then it is a fantasy piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many copies of ancients have been made for various reasons. Contemporary counterfeits made in antiquity are very collectible. Paduan copies were made in the Renaissance for collector, disclosing they were replicas. Museums used to make electrotypes for collectors of their famous pieces, not to fool but to share knowledge. Readers Digest and others made fakes in the 1960s as promotional pieces, not to fool anyone. Then you have modern fakes, only made to deceive collectors. All of these could be called copies or counterfeits, but in reality only the modern forgeries I would label counterfeits, the others not made to deceive, though they can deceive grandkids inheriting grandpa's "collection". Of course, contemporary counterfeits WERE made to deceive, but that was millenia ago and today they have a passionate collector base.</p><p><br /></p><p>TL/DR Make something today to fool the public or collectors and its a counterfeit. Do the same but not mean to deceive, its a "tribute" or fantasy piece.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 4611100, member: 26302"]Depends on intent. Did they make the coin to pass as a real coin in commerce, or to fool a collector? Then it is a counterfeit. Is it something like a 1964 silver dollar done by Daniel Carr? Then it is a fantasy piece. Many copies of ancients have been made for various reasons. Contemporary counterfeits made in antiquity are very collectible. Paduan copies were made in the Renaissance for collector, disclosing they were replicas. Museums used to make electrotypes for collectors of their famous pieces, not to fool but to share knowledge. Readers Digest and others made fakes in the 1960s as promotional pieces, not to fool anyone. Then you have modern fakes, only made to deceive collectors. All of these could be called copies or counterfeits, but in reality only the modern forgeries I would label counterfeits, the others not made to deceive, though they can deceive grandkids inheriting grandpa's "collection". Of course, contemporary counterfeits WERE made to deceive, but that was millenia ago and today they have a passionate collector base. TL/DR Make something today to fool the public or collectors and its a counterfeit. Do the same but not mean to deceive, its a "tribute" or fantasy piece.[/QUOTE]
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