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Counterfeited Dollar Coins Turn into Reality

The time, effort and expense of counterfeiting one dollar coins just doesn’t make sense.

It’s easy to at least understand a criminal’s motivation in counterfeiting rare and valuable coins. But the incentive to forge a daily and common circulating coin? It defies logic.

Yet, that’s exactly what happened with a New Zealand dollar coin. And there’s currently an investigation into counterfeit U.S. Presidential $1 coins, although it would boggle the mind if those were verified as fake.

The U.S. case has been covered and, so far, nothing is new. However, the New Zealand story is intriguing, although brief in detail.

New Zealand counterfeit dollar coin

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