Our hobby is under attack in a way that calls for some drastic changes in order to protect the marketplace from a new plague of deceptive counterfeits. In two columns, I’ll trace earlier generations of bogus coins, explore some of the new fakes from China and suggest some possible ways to remedy the problem of these counterfeits.
Counterfeiting is probably older than the first coins; while alterations made to items considered as money may have preceded that. Nevertheless, let’s begin well after this period and consider the era of struck coinage...
Full Article: Story of fakes gets new chapter in China - Numismatic News
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