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<p>[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 700218, member: 13650"]I watched a show on counterfeiting bills a while back. It's a huge problem world wide and they do send agents world wide. US agents spent 3 weeks in the jungles of South America to find a little underground hole where they estimate the counterfeiters had created at least 3 million in $100 bills and distributed them into the U.S. They have hundreds of different fakes on file to check against when fakes are found in circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p> You should be aware that China makes replicas and fakes of everything. Especially antiques. And they specialize in selling it all as real. It is NOT against the law to counterfeit foreign coins in China. It is against the law to ship them here without a stamp though. But who's going to spend the resources to track them down? The return address is a P.O. box. They got through customs labeled as "crafts".[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 700218, member: 13650"]I watched a show on counterfeiting bills a while back. It's a huge problem world wide and they do send agents world wide. US agents spent 3 weeks in the jungles of South America to find a little underground hole where they estimate the counterfeiters had created at least 3 million in $100 bills and distributed them into the U.S. They have hundreds of different fakes on file to check against when fakes are found in circulation. You should be aware that China makes replicas and fakes of everything. Especially antiques. And they specialize in selling it all as real. It is NOT against the law to counterfeit foreign coins in China. It is against the law to ship them here without a stamp though. But who's going to spend the resources to track them down? The return address is a P.O. box. They got through customs labeled as "crafts".[/QUOTE]
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