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J'ai une question dans les ensembles épreuves, est-ce que les deux dollars ont la tranche marquée Canada?

A TENDENCY TO MAKE PEOPLE OVERLY NERVOUS
Marshall recounted a story about a Montréal tool-and-die maker, who purchased two million bi-metallic planchets in the same size and weight, “within reason,” as Canada’s $2 coin.

“He had access to a press and started pounding coins; he sold them to an outlaw bike gang reportedly for $1 a piece. The bike gang then circulated them across Canada, making 100 per cent profit.”

The RCMP eventually arrested the tool-and-die maker, but of the two million planchets he purchased, only 100,000 remained.

“You do the math: that’s a fair chunk of change he made before he got caught,” said Marshall, who added he found a counterfeit 2004 toonie “in my change from a Tim Hortons in Trenton, Ont., and I was shocked.”

“I didn’t bring them today because they have a tendency to make people overly nervous.”

If there’s a profit to be made in producing a counterfeit, someone will inevitably try to do it, Marshall said.

“In this case, the profit to be made is by a secondary seller – the individual attempting to defraud by selling them as numismatic rarities.”

This secondary market is the focus of Marshall’s endeavour, and while he owns hundreds of examples for education purposes, this responsibility does not come lightly.

“Can I legally own those? Yes,” he said. “There’s a line in the law that says you may own, possess, buy, trade counterfeit coins if for education with the onus on the buyer and seller to prove that.”

Andre P a écrit : Je l'ai ensaché avec la mention Faux $2.00. Questions qq a il déja trouvé un semblable? Y aura il un marché pour ces fausses pieces?

Castor Sous a écrit :Salut Skaha_boY, quel revers as tu recu, armistice ou john a macdonal?