Counterfeit coins appear to be something out of the past to the American public. Who would want to go through all the trouble of counterfeiting a coin when it would be much more lucrative to fake a bank note?
This isn’t true everywhere. While coins in any denomination higher than 25 cents generally fail to circulate in the United States this isn’t true worldwide. The European Union issues coins in denominations as high as €2. At the time this article was being
