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Contrafaction

Contrafaction, a counterfeiting, Blount.

Coin

possession filings or clippings produced by impairing or lightening coin; to buy or sell or import or utter counterfeit coin. There were numerous other provisions tending to the suppression of the manufacturing, import in and uttering of

Sham

Sham, 1. Something that is not what it seems; a counterfeit, 2. A person who pretends to be something that he or she is not; a faker, Black's Law

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Bogus

Spurious fictitious sham a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin and hence denoting anything counterfeit

Pseudo

A combining form or prefix signifying false counterfeit pretended spurious as pseudo apostle a false apostle pseudo clergy false or spurious clergy pseudo episcopacy pseudo form

Uttering

Uttering, tendering; selling; putting in circulation; publishing. Knowingly uttering counterfeit coin is a misdemeanour, and after two prior convictions a felony, by the Coinage Offences Act, 1861, s.

Ringing the changes

payment of an article, he pretends it is not good, and, changing it, returns to the buyer a counterfeit one, as in Frank;s case, 2 Leach, 64:--A man having bargained with the prisoner, who was selling fruit

Assay

the (English) Forgery Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27), it is felony to forge or counterfeit any assay mark. As to assay of foreign imported plate, see 46 & 47 Vict. c. 55, s.

Mockery

deriding and exposing to contempt by mimicry by insincere imitation or by a false show of earnestness a counterfeit appearance

phony

imitating something superior intended to deceive fraudulent having a misleading appearance not genuine counterfeit fake as a phony diamond a phony hundred dollar bill

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