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

ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,116 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited February 17, 2020 2:42PM in U.S. Coin Forum

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.

Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
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  • silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭✭✭

    not amazed

    Coins for sale at link below
    https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipOVMv7FZDb2BvqQnSIUKnelz2nhX9TVEMcKHgHm

  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,344 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This thread should go downhill in record fashion.

    All glory is fleeting.
  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

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

    color me, not in the mood to be banned

    Frank

    BHNC #203

  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,116 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @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.

    Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @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...

    Frank

    BHNC #203

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,141 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Those links are all to stories from 2016.

    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,116 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 17, 2020 2:42PM

    @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.

    Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,570 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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.

  • davewesendavewesen Posts: 6,138 ✭✭✭✭✭

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

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