> Many commenters in this thread are speculating on how counterfeiters are inserting the, apparently large volume of, counterfeit coins I've written elsewhere

> Many commenters in this thread are speculating on how counterfeiters are inserting the, apparently large volume of, counterfeit coins I've written elsewhere that I reckon other criminal channels might be in use. If you offer your street level drug dealers a choice of 1,000 pounds in "real" money or 2,000 in "fake," (or a mixture of them both) that'd probably do the job. I'm working off the assumption that there's the exact same problem with distributing drugs. Like, what would you do with a kilo or two of cocaine just lying around? Get many smaller dealers to handle the problem for you instead and make their money along the way. If you also have some fake money lying around, I can't see any reason why you wound't try to combine the two.