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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 3949899, member: 80804&quot;]Although it is correct that counterfeiting (mainly in the form of gold or silver foil-wrapped fourrèes) began about 2:00 in the afternoon of the day that coins were first introduced at 9:00 in the morning, it&#039;s not really accurate - in fact misleading - to use the term &quot;counterfeit&quot; with something like the irregular-appearing Histaia tetrobols. These were extensively copied in the surrounding hinterlands and not in order to make fake coins for a profit - these were 100% legal tender in their local issuing areas. They may exhibit variously crude features and/or be somewhat underweight (or overweight), but local ad-hoc copying of coins to use with no intention to defraud anyone began at about 5:00 on that same theoretical day.</p><p>Some people insist on calling them &quot;barbarous&quot; although they had nothing whatsoever to do with &quot;barbarian&quot; peoples. Contemporary copies made with no intent to defraud, just in order that your village could have the same things as the town down the road, is at least as old as counterfeiting for fraudulent purposes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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