Contemporary Counterfeit Coins found in Circulation in California, Texas, and New York (2016)

Zoins

How often do modern circulation counterfeit coins make the news.

Update: this article and coin was found in 2016 as mentioned by @CaptHenway below.

Please keep this coin related.

Gerald Casale wrote:
Yesterday my wife paid cash for some groceries and, as both of us always do when we have pocket change, put the change in a bowl in our kitchen. Later she noticed that one of the quarters in the bowl showed Trump’s profile with a slogan "[deleted]". We’re not sure but she thinks she must have received it when she bought groceries at our neighborhood Whole Foods in Santa Monica. If you saw this coin in reality there’s no way you think it’s not real until you notice Trump’s head in place of George Washington.

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silverpop

not amazed

291fifth

This thread should go downhill in record fashion.

Treashunt

@291fifth said:
This thread should go downhill in record fashion.

color me, not in the mood to be banned

Zoins

@Treashunt said:

@291fifth said:
This thread should go downhill in record fashion.

color me, not in the mood to be banned

This is just news for a counterfeit coin. Let's keep it this way.

Treashunt

@Zoins said:

@Treashunt said:

@291fifth said:
This thread should go downhill in record fashion.

color me, not in the mood to be banned

This is just news for a counterfeit coin. Let's keep it this way.

hence my comment...

CaptHenway

Those links are all to stories from 2016.

Zoins

@CaptHenway said:
Those links are all to stories from 2016.

Ouch. You're right. I didn't notice that just now, and didn't notice this then. Did they ever find out who issued these?

I edited the title and first post to indicate this is an old topic.

JBK

I remember this story from when it was first reported. As I recall, one story had good pics of the reverse and it appeared to be a genuine quarter with some sort of overlay (metal? plastic?) on the obverse (in which case it is altered, not a counterfeit).

At the time I searched everywhere I could for a source or for more concrete details and I came up with nothing. I was a bit suspicious that this was a publicity stunt of sorts, where the "finders" of the coins were actually the creators or at least friends of the source.

I did not find any on eBay or elsewhere for sale, and reports of them turning up did not multiply. To me, this supported the suspicion that they were a stunt, It seems to me that if someone was cranking these out in any kind of quantity then more would have appeared.

davewesen

Is it clad? is it altered like a hobo nickel? why did you originally think it was real?