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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bruce Jonathan Fick, post: 2098171, member: 73845&quot;]Counterfeiting dollar coins has been going on a lot longer than we think.</p><p>My aunt worked as a civilian employee for the Air Force during the 1950s</p><p>and 1960s. She&#039;d send me common date A.U. Morgans she&#039;d pick up from</p><p>local banks in California for my birthday, Christmas etc. I took one to a</p><p>local coin dealer who had 2 just like it. He identified it as a counterfeit.</p><p>It was an American counterfeit of an 1885 Philadelphia Morgan. Can you immagine getting a counterfeit $1 coin from a bank ? The coin didn&#039;t </p><p>weigh the proper 27 grams, and looked very dark, as it didn&#039;t have much of a Silver content, much less 90 %. His reply to me was that since a</p><p>Silver dollar was a lot of money in 1960, it was worthwhile for American</p><p>counterfeiters to fabricate them. The Chinese have made great strides</p><p>in targeting rare Morgan dollars to counterfeit. They&#039;ve wised up to</p><p>making them the correct weight ( the Mints used sensitive postal scales )</p><p>and using nearly the exact amount of Silver. Since they&#039;re as motivated</p><p>as monks of the middle ages were to hand copy Bibles before the printing</p><p>press was invented, it represents a big score for these forger Fraudsters</p><p>per coin if they succeed. Think of how much .9999 fine Canadian Mint</p><p>Maple Leaf Gold coins they can buy with U.S. dollars from their scams.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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