Looking for Info on US & European Counterfeit Coins from Lebanon

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Years ago I read an article, and I apologize for not having the source, which might be in one of “anthology books” that covered a visit to one of these counterfeiter’s mints in Lebanon. The author described it as a normal looking house on the outside with a noisy interior. The product was U.S. gold coins.

These Lebanese counterfeits have been around for at least as long as I have been a collector. They were in numismatic circulation in the mid 1960s when I was buying coins at Gimbels’ Department Store in Philadelphia. The numismatists there talked about how the showed up from people who were bringing them in to sell. The coins had the full weight or more. They just were not a U.S. product which made them counterfeits.

I have read that certain types of counterfeits were perfectly acceptable in trade if they were full weight and fineness. Sometimes it was necessary to use them because the real thing was in short supply.

 

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Christian

 

Wow this is awesome information. I’ve got plenty of information to work with and some new ideas. Thanks!!!