Blurt Alert : Be on the Look out for these Counterfeit $2 Coin circulating in Canada

in money •  3 years ago  (edited)

I Just received this notice from the OPP here in Ontario Canada.

Be on the Look out for these Counterfeit coins…..

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This is what they should look like …

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Source: https://www.numismaticnews.net/world-coins/canadas-2-coin-now-20-years-old

Ontario Provincial Police are warning businesses of some counterfeit toonies that were found at a store in Hawkesbury.

Officers were called to the store on Regent Street at around 11 a.m. Tuesday because someone had used counterfeit coins to buy things.

A photo shared by police shows the coins have the same coloration as real toonies, but a cursory glance reveals they're anything but. They have a walrus on one side instead of a polar bear, and are stamped as being worth "Z DOLLARD". The image purporting to be of Queen Elizabeth II is also incorrect. It appears to be a grumpy old man. The coins are also dated 1990, when the first real toonies weren't in circulation until 1996.

Source: https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/opp-warn-of-counterfeit-z-dollard-toonies-surfacing-in-eastern-ontario-1.5737401

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  ·  3 years ago  ·  

Thanks for making a use case for the counterfeit resistant cryptos OPP.