An ancient and a modern crime

Deceiving individuals by paying with fake money is criminal. But when a government is the issuer of a currency, counterfeiting becomes a crime of treason! Join us on an enlightening audio tour of a wide variety of counterfeits, ranging from cocoa beans filled with sand to sweated coins (coins shaken together in a bag to remove bits of metal) to hand-engraved counterfeit bank notes. Listen to the stories of some of the most notorious and colourful counterfeiters in Canada and learn more about contemporary security features that help protect our bank notes from counterfeiting.