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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 2178615, member: 15062&quot;]If I read you right, if a counterfeit is made during the time the coin is still in general circulation, then collecting it is alright.&nbsp; If the counterfeit is of a no longer circulating coin then it&#039;s frowned upon.&nbsp; Surely it can&#039;t be that simple.&nbsp; That&#039;s saying that the 1923-S and 1930-S Dimes made in the 1930&#039;s are collectible counterfeits, but if the makers of those coins kept the dies and made the same two coins today they wouldn&#039;t be collectible.&nbsp; Or that a Liberty Nickel known to have been plated by Tatum is collectible but a Liberty nickel plated today is not.&nbsp; Are the large numbers of counterfeit 3-cent silvers made during the 1850&#039;s and 1860&#039;s collectible?&nbsp; What is the status of modern fake 0ne-pound British coins, and the many Euro coin copies.&nbsp; And how about the (fairly) recently made copies of the 1934 (and 1932) Quarters first seen at the Long Beach show in 1985? </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not trying to be argumentative but it seems that the counterfeit market has standards beyond when the copy was made.&nbsp; Die-stamped is ok, casting is not.&nbsp; A 1923-S Dime is a counterfeit; a 1916 Morgan is not.&nbsp; Many thousands of a counterfeit make it collectible, only a few score made don&#039;t.&nbsp; U.S. made is more acceptable than Chinese made, but some foreign made - Russian, French - is accepted.&nbsp; ¯\_(ツ)_/¯[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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