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Message: <blockquote data-quote="David Argall" data-source="post: 669749" data-attributes="member: 4481">official counterfeiting"You mint coins that resemble the Kingdom's gold and platinum currency, but made out of copper, and then cover them with a coating of real gold or platinum. The real metal for the heavy plating will cost you about 20% of each coin's true value if it had been solid, but an 80% profit still makes this a very viable scheme."    All too often, this was what the king himself did.  All the coins from the previous regime were called in, a varying amount of alloy was added, and the new coins were handed out, at a nice profit for his majesty, not to mention he charged people for ripping them off.       Needless to say, people were often reluctant to turn in old coins and they often circulated in preference to the official currency, so the "counterfeit" currency the king was trying to hunt down was sometimes of superior value to the official currency.  The king was just as upset about coins that had too much gold as too little.</blockquote>