says some crooks are now putting their fake gold and silver coins into authentic-looking collector coin holders called slabs, complete with bogus bar codes and registration numbers. This makes it ...

Numismatic Guaranty Corporation When a coin collector was told his mysterious $5 discovery was a fake by numerous experts, he began to believe it himself. But he is now on course to becoming a ...

Investing in gold bars and coins can be a smart financial strategy, but it can be daunting for beginners to differentiate between real and fake gold. Counterfeiters are getting better at making ...

WASHINGTON – Fake antique gold and silver US coins – many purporting to be more than 200 years old — are flooding the US resale market from China, and Congress just passed a law to do ...

You pop a pound coin into a parking meter or vending machine - and it drops straight back out again. Only then do you realise that it's a worthless fake. Up to one in 50 pound coins in circulation ...

Brits still have around £500 million worth of the old coins stored in money boxes around the country, but how do you know if you've got a fake? Earlier this year it was estimated that as many as ...

Attempting to pass it on is an offence. Image caption, Genuine coins have prompted attempted forgeries for many years One way to identify a fake is to check the alignment of the coin. By holding ...

PRISTINA, Sept 21 (Reuters) - At a cafe in Kosovo's capital Pristina, staff have given up checking whether the 2-euro coins people use to pay are genuine, as such a high proportion are fake and as ...