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Hoskins knew how to spot a counterfeit - Numismatic News
Oct 6 at 2:02pm
This month as a tribute to the memory of Charles Hoskins, my former boss and mentor, I’ll share with you what I remember about my first authentication lesson at ANACS in 1972.
Hoskins was the first director of the American Numismatic Association Certification Service. In the beginning, ANACS was a two-person operation on an upper floor of an old office building overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. If you have ever seen an old movie from the 1940s or 1950s with a detective’s office, you’ll understand the setting.
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Counterfeit Pound Coins Double, How to Detect a Fake £1
Sep 22 at 9:09pm
The number of counterfeit £1 coins in circulation has doubled in the last five years, according to new figures released by the Royal Mint and reported by the BBC. Two percent or 1 in 50 pound coins are fake, and based on production, that would account for some 30 million counterfeit £1s circulating.
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Too-shiny toonie raises collector’s suspicions - London Free Press
Jul 29 at 8:08pm
Even the humble toonie isn’t immune from counterfeiters. A suspected counterfeit $2 coin, the first reported in London, turned up in a vending machine at a plant in the city earlier this month.
Martin Hodgson, a vice-president at Williams Form Hardware on Industrial Road, became suspicious when a toonie jammed a pop machine inside the plant.
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Man charged with selling fake coins - Courier Coins
Jul 27 at 9:09pm
A local man passed off a collection of replica silver coins as real and made more than $3,200 before getting arrested last week.
Police said Kenneth Schields, 50, of Maplewood Drive in Middletown, has been charged with three counts of theft by deception and criminal attempt at theft and sent to Bucks County prison on $75,000 bail.
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Watch out for counterfeit coins - Coin Collector’s Blog
May 13 at 10:10am
One of the biggest problem with some online auction sites are the number of counterfeit coins being sold as genuine. Many of these coins look genuine. They may have been made of cast models of genuine coins with engraved enhancing to make them look better. Others are very badly made where designs have dates of coins that does not exist. Two coins commonly faked are Trade Dollars and Morgan Dollars.
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