Two Spanish conmen discovered last month that it’s a dog-eat-dog world and they are not the smartest among thieves. The two would-be con artist brothers found they had been spectacularly hoodwinked when banks refused to deposit the money they swindled from the sale of a counterfeit painting.
Tag: counterfeiting
The Omega Man Counterfeiter creates counterfeit coins so perfect that the only way to detect his fakes is with a microscope.
In the early 1970’s, ANACS (American Numismatic Association Certification Service) noticed an unusually high number of “high relief” coins entering the market. High relief coins are coins that are struck multiple times to produce extremely clear, concise contours. Suspicious that an unusually high quality counterfeiter could be the culprit, they began careful examination of the…








