OTTAWA — The Royal Canadian Mint says a phoney gold bar sold to a jeweller by an Ottawa bank may have looked like the real thing, but was actually a counterfeit. The small gold wafer wasn’t made or sold by the mint, although it was made to look genuine, said spokesman Alex Reeves. “It is a copy of a Royal Canadian Mint bullion bar,” he said. It could not possibly come from the Royal Canadian Mint.”It’s rare for such a counterfeit to turn up, Reeves added. “We have visible, anti-counterfeiting, microengraving marks on new one-ounce gold bars for instance since 2016,” he said.

Source: National Post October 30, 2017 20:39 UTC