A find at Alstad in Toten, from around 1820, contained 1600 counterfeit coins. These too were pennies of Eirik Magnusson's type but with the royal crown on the obverse. The Toten counterfeit coins are particularly poorly made and one half the weight of the genuine coins. Unfortunately, the man who found the coins had most of them melted down. Rumour said that the amount of silver he extracted from these coins was enough only for fitting on a tobacco pipe.
Some popular accounts describe kings as counterfeiters because they mixed copper with the silver .