I remember a year or three ago there was a story going around about Chinese scrap metal recyclers getting shipments of "destroyed" euro coins and reassembling t

I remember a year or three ago there was a story going around about Chinese scrap metal recyclers getting shipments of "destroyed" euro coins and reassembling them to pass off as intact money. Turns out at the time the official method to decommission the coins was to pop out the center piece. So to answer your question: In some cases, not well enough. ;) EDIT: source: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/04/euro_coin_recyc.html http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/04/euro_coin_recy...