Counterfeit coins

Wanna be a counterfeiter? Here's how!

From making your own coins from scratch, or altering dates on real coins, or combining two real coins into a third coin, counterfeit coins have been around since the first coins were minted in 600 BC.

The latest instance of fakery centers around the 1883-S Morgan dollar. The photo shows how coins can have their faces shaved off, and then two halves are pressed together to make a "new" coin which is much more valuable than the two coins you started with.

Listen to the whole story at http://thetreasurecorner.com.

Dan apparently counterfeits have been around even longer then 600 b.c. but here is a recent discovery of some
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ece-s-going-spend-new-metal-detector.html?iad

and was also very rampant here in colonial America around the 1770's

Del, if those coins are 2,350 years old as the article states, that would put their origin at 336 BC. Not as old as 600 BC!

Unless I did the math wrong, which would not surprise anyone who knows me!

I didn't know about colonial counterfeiting. If they were making fake coins to use as money, I wouldn't think the profit margin would be very high?