This index attempts to classify all the major items covered in the Counterfeit Coin Newsletter. It does not cover items from the editorial and only some of the more substantial items from "Counterfeiting snippets from around the world". Occasionally some items are indexed under more than one heading.
In the later Newsletters clicking on the link will transfer you directly to the item.
Cumulative Index
General
| Title | Issue & date published | Link |
|---|---|---|
| No revival for the Counterfeit Coin Bulletin | Issue 4, July 2005 | Link |
| Altered coins still a very real problem for the collector | Issue 8, July 2007 | Link |
| SILVIA HURTER | Issue 11, January 2009 | Link |
Investigating counterfeits
| Title | Issue & date published | Link |
| Feature The development over the last fifty years of the science of examining counterfeit coins: Part I The classical techniques |
Issue 3, December 2004 | Link |
| Rummaging in the archives Book review: Forensic Chemistry by A.Lucas, published 1921 |
Issue 7, December 2006 | Link |
Counterfeit prosecution statistics
| Title | Issue & date published | Link |
| The counterfeiting of circulation coins in England and Wales in the first half of the Twentieth century | Issue 1, December 2003 | Link |
| Circulating coin counterfeiting in Britain and its colonies in the first part of the twentieth century | Issue 10, July 2008 | Link |
Techniques of Producing counterfeits
| Title | Issue & date published | Link |
| Numismatic Forgery (Book review) | Issue 4, July 2005 | Link |
| Louis "The Coin" Colavecchio's counterfeiting equipment is auctioned off | Issue 11, January 2009 | Link |
On-line Resources
| Title | Issue & date published | Link |
| Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University | Issue 4, July 2005 | Link |
| The proceedings of the Old Bailey on-line | Issue 5, December 2005 | Link |
| A puzzling "mule" coin from the Parabita Hoard | Issue 6, July 2006 | Link |
| South Asia Coin Group | Issue 7, December 2006 | Link |
| Sites dealing with USA silver dollars | Issue 9, December 2007 | Link |
| Keeping up to date with the literature of counterfeit coins | Issue 10, July 2008 | Link |
| Examples of Counterfeit USA Dollar Coins | Issue 11, January 2009 | Link |
| Forum Ancient Coins and Revue Numismatique | Issue 12, September 2009 | Link |
New Media (Reviews)
| Title | Issue & date published | Link |
| The Infamous Ashmore Coins: Anglo-Saxon Pennies: Volume I | Issue 8, July 2007 | Link |
In Print (Reviews)
| Title | Issue & date published | Link |
| Numismatic Forgery (Book) | Issue 4, July 2005 | Link |
| Coin collections and coin hoards from Bulgaria by Prokopov et al (Books) |
Issue 5, December 2005 | Link |
| "NOT KOSHER: Forgeries of Ancient Jewish and Biblical Coins" (Book) | Issue 6, July 2006 | Link |
| Rummaging in the archives Forensic Chemistry by A.Lucas, published 1921 (Book) |
Issue 7, December 2006 | Link |
| "The Late Roman Gold and Silver Coins from the Hoxne Treasure" (Book) | Issue 9, December 2007 | Link |
| "Coin Forgeries and Replicas 2007" (on-line pdf book) | Issue 10, July 2008 | Link |
| "Counterfeit coins of England and the United Kingdom" by Ken Peters | Issue 11, January 2009 | Link |
| "Newton and the Counterfeiter" by Thomas Levinson | Issue 13, January 2010 | Link |
Research
| Title | Issue & date published | Link |
| Contemporary counterfeits of ancient coins | Issue 8, July 2007 | Link |
| Anarchism and counterfeiting | Issue 12, September 2009 | Link |
Auctions of counterfeit coins
| Title | Issue & date published | Link |
| Stack's auction of Part I of the Michael K. Ringo Collection of Latin American Circulating Counterfeit Coinage | Issue 12, September 2009 | Link |
Counterfeiting, counterfeits and altered coins by country
| Title | Issue & date published | Link |
| Ancients [Chinese] | ||
| Ancients [Greek] | ||
| Fake Alexandrian tetradrachms | Issue 5, December 2005 | Link |
| Dispute over authentication of an Athenian Dekadrachm | Issue 6, July 2006 | Link |
| A puzzling "mule" coin from the Parabita Hoard | Issue 6, July 2006 | Link |
| More heat than light in the affair of the Gemini V gold stater | Issue 11, January 2009 | Link |
| Ancients [Indo-Greek] | ||
| Ancients [Celtic] | ||
| Celtic coin fakes | Issue 3, December 2004 | Link |
| "middle.earth" suspended from eBay for selling reproduction Celtic coins as genuine | Issue 6, July 2006 | Link |
| Fake Celtic trophy type gold quarter staters | Issue 8, July 2007 | Link |
| Coin detector gaoled for selling fake antique coins | Issue 12, September 2009 | Link |
| Ancients [Roman] | ||
| A study of the silvering process of the Gallo-Roman coins forged during the third century AD (Review of scientific paper) | Issue 7, December 2006 | Link |
| Examination of two counterfeit coins [denarii] from the [Birnie] hoard (Review of scientific paper) | Issue 8, July 2007 | Link |
| "The Late Roman Gold and Silver Coins from the Hoxne Treasure" (Review of book) | Issue 9, December 2007 | Link |
| "A "Hoard" of Late Roman Copper, LRC, counterfeit coins appears" | Issue 13, January 2010 | Link |
| "Tourist fakes and souvenirs"[copy of a Vespasian sisterius struck in 71 AD] | Issue 13, January 2010 | Link |
| Ancients [Arab etc.] | ||
| A series of fake Sasanian coins appear | Issue 7, December 2006 | Link |
| Sasanian coins | Issue 8, July 2007 | Link |
| Hammered Coins | ||
| Modern counterfeits of Edward I medieval English farthings on sale | Issue 4, July 2005 | Link |
| Coin detector gaoled for selling fake antique coins | Issue 12, September 2009 | Link |
| Milled Coins | ||
| Bulgaria | ||
| Bulgarian counterfeiting | Issue 5, December 2005 | Link |
| Canada | ||
| USA source of counterfeit Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) tokens | Issue 6, July 2006 | Link |
| Canadian police find counterfeit coin "factory" near Montreal | Issue 7, December 2006 | Link |
| An altered Canadian 1942 "filled die type error" 1 cent | Issue 13, January 2010 | Link |
| China | ||
| "Coin World" investigation uncovers Chinese sycee ramp | Issue 4, July 2005 | Link |
| Snippets from China | Issue 7, December 2006 | Link |
| A tourists impresion of Chinese counterfeiting | Issue 8, July 2007 | Link |
| Chinese counterfeit coins spread | Issue 10, July 2008 | Link |
| More on Chinese counterfeit coins and slabs | Issue 11, January 2009 | Link |
| News from the battle against Chinese counterfeiting | Issue 12, September 2009 | Link |
| Euro | ||
| An update on euro counterfeiting (ETSC 2002 Report) |
Issue 1, December 2003 | Link |
| Euro counterfeiting 2003 | Issue 2, July 2004 | Link |
| Euro counterfeiting update (ETSC 2003 Report) |
Issue 3, December 2004 | Link |
| Is the battle against the counterfeiting of the Euro coins being lost? | Issue 4, July 2005 | Link |
| Euro counterfeiting update | Issue 6, July 2006 | Link |
| The euro counterfeit coins withdrawn from circulation in 2006 | Issue 8, July 2007 | Link |
| Euro counterfeit coins (2006) | Issue 9, December 2007 | Link |
| Twenty-seven percent rise in euro coins withdrawn from circulation in 2007 | Issue 10, July 2008 | Link |
| Euro coin counterfeiting in 2008 | Issue 12, September 2009 | Link |
| Euro counterfeiting update [2009] | Issue 13, January 2010 | Link |
| Hong Kong | ||
| Hong Kong circulation coin counterfeiting | Issue 10, July 2008 | Link |
| Figures for Hong Kong $10 counterfeit coin withdrawals in 2008 released | Issue 12, September 2009 | Link |
| India | ||
| Indian counterfeiting | Issue 3, December 2004 | Link |
| "Examination of some counterfeit Indian 5-rupee denomination coins: a case study." (Review) | Issue 11, January 2009 | Link |
| Israel | ||
| Feature Focus on Israeli counterfeiting |
Issue 5, December 2005 | Link |
| Bank of Israel warns of counterfeit 5 NIS coins | Issue 6, July 2006 | Link |
| Japan | ||
| Second type of Japanese 500-yen counterfeit coin found | Issue 2, July 2004 | Link |
| Japan is hit by a spate of 500-yen counterfeits | Issue 4, July 2005 | Link |
| Malaysia | ||
| Was the Malaysian RM1 coin withdrawn due to counterfeiting? | Issue 5, December 2005 | Link |
| Singapore and Malaysian counterfeiting | Issue 7, December 2006 | Link |
| Philippines | ||
| Counterfeit Philippines circulation coins discovered | Issue 7, December 2006 | Link |
| Russia | ||
| Investigating counterfeits of nineteenth century Russian platinum roubles | Issue 3, December 2004 | Link |
| Counterfeit Russian collector coins | Issue 5, December 2005 | Link |
| Part IV: Platinum roubles as an archive for the history of Platinum (Review of scientific paper) | Issue 7, December 2006 | Link |
| Counterfeit Russian Gold Coins | Issue 9, December 2007 | Link |
| Singapore | ||
| Singapore and Malaysian counterfeiting | Issue 7, December 2006 | Link |
| South Africa | ||
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Feature
The counterfeiting of the South African Five Rand Coin
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Issue 2, July 2004 | Link |
| South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands | ||
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Feature
Warning about fake South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands coins
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Issue 12, September 2009 | Link |
| Taiwan | ||
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Taiwanese counterfeiter made half a million fake NT$50 coins over ten years
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Issue 11, January 2009 | Link |
| United Kingdom including England and Scotland | ||
| Counterfeiting of the UK one-pound coin | Issue 1, December 2003 | Link |
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Feature
The counterfeiting of the British Victorian £5 gold coin
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Issue 1, December 2003 | Link |
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Feature
The counterfeiting of the British sovereign in the second half of the twentieth century
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Issue 2, July 2004 | Link |
| Terrorists and gangsters involved in UK coin counterfeiting | Issue 3, December 2004 | Link |
| The number of counterfeit British one-pound coins withdrawn from circulation remains low | Issue 6, July 2006 | Link |
| Spurious Guernsey 2006 coins surface | Issue 6, July 2006 | Link |
| Champion collector of fake UK one-pound coins? | Issue 7, December 2006 | Link |
| Some observations on counterfeits of the UK Bridge series one-pound coins | Issue 8, July 2007 | Link |
| "Counterfeit coin of the realm - Review and case study analysis" (Review of scientific paper) | Issue 8, July 2007 | Link |
| Investigating how some magnetic, counterfeit dollars and crowns are made | Issue 9, December 2007 | Link |
| Man goaled for counterfeiting one-pound coins | Issue 9, December 2007 | Link |
| The nineteenth century use of gold plated platinum in counterfeit coins | Issue 9, December 2007 | Link |
| Busy news period for UK one-pound counterfeiting | Issue 10, July 2008 | Link |
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Feature
Circulating coin counterfeiting in Britain and its colonies in the first part of the twentieth century
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Issue 10, July 2008 | Link |
| The British authorities struggle to withdraw counterfeit one-pound coins | Issue 11, January 2009 | Link |
| BBC story etc. | Issue 11, January 2009 | Link |
| Ten early twentieth century British "silver" counterfeits | Issue 11, January 2009 | Link |
| British one-pound coin counterfeiting: a further update | Issue 12, September 2009 | Link |
| British one-pound coin counterfeiting reaches a "level of political significance" | Issue 13, January 2010 | Link |
| Uganda | ||
| Ugandan butcher arrested for making 500 shilling coins | Issue 10, July 2008 | Link |
| USA | ||
| A counterfeit USA Eagle is identified (2002 tenth-ounce platinum eagle) | Issue 1, December 2003 | Link |
| How the West was faked (Western precious metal ingots) | Issue 2, July 2004 | Link |
| USA counterfeit casino tokens | Issue 7, December 2006 | Link |
| Los Angeles police seek source of fake "silver" dollars | Issue 7, December 2006 | Link |
| A coin dealer's bizarre plea bargain sees him "banished" from three Florida counties. | Issue 10, July 2008 | Link |
| Louis "The Coin" Colavecchio's counterfeiting equipment is auctioned off | Issue 11, January 2009 | Link |
| The so-called 1853 United States Assay Office proof gold $20 | Issue 11, January 2009 | Link |
| Weeding out the "Franklin Hoard" and other spurious western coins | Issue 13, January 2010 | Link |
| A fake USA 1916-D dime | Issue 13, January 2010 | Link |
| A fake USA 1915-D gold Half Eagle | Issue 13, January 2010 | Link |
| A fake 1879-CC dollar made from two genuine coins | Issue 13, January 2010 | Link |
Copyright Robert Matthews 2010
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