Counterfeiting
COUNTERFEITING (from Lat. contra-facere, to make in opposition or contrast), making an imitation without authority and for the purpose of defrauding. The word is more particularly used in connexion with the making of imitations of money, whether paper or coin. (See Coinage Offences; Forgery.)
Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)
