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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1404517, member: 112"]People seem to get hung up on the idea that only rare or very valuable coins are counterfeited. Nothing could be further from the truth. The most commonly counterfeited coins are the ones that cost the least amount of money. Even common, everyday cents are counterfeited. There are 2 reasons to counterfeit coins. 1 - to pass them off as money. 2 - to sell them to collectors or dealers. In the old days, the first reason was the most common. Back then it was almost the only reason. It is only in more recent years that counterfeits were made for sale to collectors. And what most don't realize is that the common coins, the cheap coins, are the ones most often counterfeited for sale to collectors. There is a reason for that. Think about it, when was the last time you ever saw a clerk at a store mark a $5 or $10 bill with one of those marking pens to see if it was a fake bill ? I'll wager you've never seen it. The reason it doesn't happen is because people automatically think it wouldn't be worth it to try and pass fake 5's and 10's. But that right there is exactly why it is worth it - because you'll never get caught ! That makes the low denomination bills, just like the common cheap coins, the best ones to counterfeit ! Nobody ever thinks twice about them ![/QUOTE]