Talk:Counterfeit money

Hi all, PatHadley (talk) here. I'm the Wikipedian-in-Residence at York Museums Trust (Project pages). I've been working with the numismatics curators uploading images of coins from the Middleham Hoard. The whole set can be found here: Category:Coins from the Middleham Hoard. Of the 5099 coins in the hoard, 54 are now in YMT collections and 35 of these are counterfeit. These are sorted by monarch and exist as subcategories of commons:Category:Counterfeit coins. Perhaps some of these would be useful on this article or elsewhere on related topics? Thoughts, queries and feedback welcome. Cheers, PatHadley (talk) 14:50, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

https://www.wired.com/2012/05/ff-counterfeiter/ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-J%C3%BCrgen_Kuhl — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8109:B00:4776:31DC:CA00:A421:812B (talk) 13:59, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

"Some of the ill-effects that counterfeit money has on society include[3][4] a reduction in the value of real money"

Are there any actual real citations for this? Scholarly articles or academic research into the effects on economy of Counterfeit Currency?

[4] is a rinky'dink-ass webblog from 2007, which itself it citationless. This is not an axiom to be assumed, and the blog itself says > But modern economies operate mainly on bank-issued credit, not cash. So it is not a case of A therefore B, as with Federal Reserve prints money therefore inflation. Because it is unaccounted for directly.

I feel that the article could be expanded with more coverage of modern coin counterfeiting and measures to counter it such as Bi-metallic coins. Obviously, fake antique coins are out of scope here but people do counterfeit circulating coins as well. As recently as 2017 the One pound (British coin) had to be completely replaced with a more secure (bi-metallic) design after more than 3% of the old coins in circulation were found to be counterfeit. We could pull in a little content from Coin counterfeiting and link to it. DanielRigal (talk) 20:20, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

This is very interesting. I´ve read for example the german law text. This article here says "prison till to 15 years". In the text of law (which is in the quotation) is standing "at least 3 month into prison"... no where is standing about 15 years - so why? have the author invented in his fantasy all the other penalties as well? Congrat - anglophone. You were even more lieing then rest of the world already have thought. 88.66.200.176 (talk) 23:39, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

Can someone find information for penalties on just knowingly accepting counterfeit money vs creating and using counterfeit money? WikiGrower1 (talk) 03:18, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

This article is currently the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 12 January 2026 and 30 April 2026. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Aggie2006 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Dr.ozkul (talk) 00:14, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

Howdy, as a part of a Technical Editing class at Texas A&M University, I am beginning to work on editing this article. I wanted to share what I am looking to work on before making any major edits to the document.

·Copyediting as needed- grammar, style, tone, etc.

·Adding additional citations for the Notable counterfeiters section if possible.

·Add pictures if possible. It would be on the lower sections of the article. Such as money are to the educational resources on counterfeit money section.

I would love to hear your thoughts, and please feel free to let me know if there is anything I need to know about this article. Thank you. Aggie2006 (talk) 16:17, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

I have made a good amount of significant edits to this article. From fixing NPOV issues, changing the main structure of the article, and attempting to go more in depth with the leading paragraphs so that it would work better in tandem with the article. Currently these changes made a big difference but I believe that there is still work to be done on this article.

Many parts of the information in the article are in desperate need of good citations or would need to be cut from the article. Another major thing is that the money art sub header section may need to be its own article or a related article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aggie2006 (talk • contribs) 11:56, 3 March 2026 (UTC)