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Counterfeit Coins

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
January
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Witmn tüe last tew years nnrnbeici o:, forgeries of extremely rare coins in the British miisentn and in private collections liave been sold by auctiun in London. So good is their execution that it seema probable that means have been devised for casting steel dies on piaster caBts or of hardening electrotype dies. The manufacture of rare "siego pieces, " carried on in one of onr midland towns, shows a f ar lower anioant of ski 11. When gennine but defaced coins are restruck with new iropressions, it is very difflcult to discover tbe fratid. Sorae genuino ancient coins arestirhappees in this manner - as, for instance, a whole class of Jewish coins which aio struck on Roman silver denarii. But when the image and superscription of William 111 can be discerned underlying the device on a rare crown piece of Elizabeth the questionof its

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