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Put it in your collection. There's nothing wrong with owning counterfeit, it's only a crime to create it with intent to pass it, or to pass it as the real thing.

 

It is illegal in Canada. Usually they'll just confiscate it without penalty if it appears that someone just had one (received as genuine) as an example.

Line 448:

In this Part,

"counterfeit money" includes

( a ) a false coin or false paper money that resembles or is apparently intended to resemble or pass for a current coin or current paper money,

( b ) a forged bank-note or forged blank bank-note, whether complete or incomplete,

( c ) a genuine coin or genuine paper money that is prepared or altered to resemble or pass for a current coin or current paper money of a higher denomination,

( d ) a current coin from which the milling is removed by filing or cutting the edges and on which new milling is made to restore its appearance,

( e ) a coin cased with gold, silver or nickel, as the case may be, that is intended to resemble or pass for a current gold, silver or nickel coin, and

( f ) a coin or a piece of metal or mixed metals that is washed or coloured by any means with a wash or material capable of producing the appearance of gold, silver or nickel and that is intended to resemble or pass for a current gold, silver or nickel coin

Criminal Code Line 450:

Every one who, without lawful justification or excuse, the proof of which lies on him,

( a ) buys, receives or offers to buy or receive,

( b ) has in his custody or possession, or

( c ) introduces into Canada,

counterfeit money is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.

I believe that coin copies are the numismatic equivalent of devil worship. It doesn't matter what kind of copy, whether ancient counterfeit (fouree), ancient imitation, modern replica, old modern forgery, new modern forgery, whatever, they're all exactly the same. Exactly. They're pure evil, and anyone who even thinks about collecting them should be reported to the International Bureau of Numismatic Standards and Puritanism, which has as its U.N.-chartered purpose the promulgation of what's collectable and what's not. Copies are not collectable, neither are they collectible, and above all else nobody here should ever write that they're collectuble.

Could you explain that? A search for "International Bureau of Numismatic Standards and Puritanism" turns up nothing.

Farthing

Roman

Czech

Czech

Greece

Hungary

Neither. I don't really recognize anything past MS67

You mean that Czech note is just one note? Looks almost like two since the two sides are completely different...

Definately unusual.

Armenia

Both reverse and obverse of the French take elements from Roman coinage, but that Hamburg piece sure is decent. Gotta use my second abstain vote on this.

Abstain. Can't really decide on a ugly portrait of an historical piece.

Thaler.

Kick ass lion!

Thaler

I'm going with the older design (not to be confused with the older coin...)

How about coin watches? Those are cool, but way wayyy out of my budget.

Those 1877 IHC 13c stamps are pretty interesting, being issued in 1978 before the rate change to 15c, and while the USPS was investigating and trying out tiny stamps in an effort to save money by getting more stamps printed on less paper...

I have a bunch that I use myself the rare times I use the USPS.

Got extras of some dates. All ugly MS60 pieces have been removed.

1968 (PL): 75c ea

1977: $1 ea, $4/5

1978: 75c ea, $3/5

1991: $1 ea, $4/5, $7/10

1994: $1 ea, $4/5

2001P: $1 ea, $4/5

2002P (QE golden jubilee commem): 75c ea, $3/5

Postage and packaging at cost. Other 1970s and early 1980s dates in EF+ may be available.

Well, that blob on the right is what's known as a "cud". Usually worth about $10.

This is getting pretty funny.

Wow, that is indeed one of the best of local coinages I've seen.