As technology improves, will it become easier to CONTERFEIT coins?

[SethChandler-migration]

Seth

[gmarguli]

Sure. How long before someone uses a laser to make a "perfect" die?

[toyonakataro]

I was wondering the same thing for a while...it may become a big threat to this hobby

[Beijim]

How easy is it to obtain a press that can exert from 10 to 40 tons of pressure ? Is obtaining such a machine and operating it for the express purpose of forging numismatic items both practical and economically viable ? I suspect the answer is no. At the very least, won't the neighbors complain ?

 

Of course, if we're talking about forging statehood quarters, then I retract all my gainsaying .

 

Beijim

 

[michael]

within my specialities how the coins come and how i see them and their charactistics

 

for me................i do not think so

 

sincerely michael

 

the problem is most all of the collectors that really do not specialize

nor take it as a religion

for all of their lives

since they were very young kids

 

like me..........

 

well pt barnum put it well

 

you may be able to fool some of the people

some of the time

 

even some of the people all of the time

 

 

 

but you will never fool all of the people all of the time

 

sincerely michael

 

 

[Oldtrader3]

Laser cutting (or even EDM) machine tools are pretty expensive and pretty knowledge intensive to use. The investment with even a used 40T punch press, would be pretty high. Plus, you could not send the dies out to be hardened or polished. A lot of know how and capital involved, but like anything else, it could be done.

[EVillageProwler]

As the technology for counterfeiting improves, chances are that the technology to discern the counterfeits also improves. Of course, the second technology should lag behind the first. But, undoubtedly it will improve as the other improves.

 

EVP

 

[Beijim]

I'm with EVP on this one - the fact that counterfeit detection methods will improve was my first reaction to the question (though I failed to post it). It mirrors advances in forensic science. Although it may remain possible, it's increasingly difficult to, as they say, get away with murder.

 

Beijim