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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gao, post: 671919, member: 19409&quot;]First, let me say that I agree that the passage is vague enough where we can&#039;t tell with 100% certainty. I have no problem with you disagreeing with this passage or pointing out how uncertain it is.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>However, I&#039;m not sure if that would work out too well. After all, if people were paying even more than the face value for counterfeits, wouldn&#039;t that just encourage people to counterfeit more? You wouldn&#039;t even need to try to make something good enough to pass in common circulation. You could just make it, rub it against something to cause wear, and sell it to whoever was investigating for a high profit. This same thing may have happened if these people were collectors, but in their case, they would probably be disinterested in stopping counterfeits, so it wouldn&#039;t matter to them.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>That said, if it was some form of authority that was purchasing them, I would assume that the purpose would be to investigate whether mintworkers were moonlighting or stealing silver. After all, there are plenty of forees that seem to be made with official dies. That makes more sense to me than trying to examine methods, since it would allow them to track the counterfeiting to the source and prevent it from happening again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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