Counterfeit!
Subtitle: stopping fakes and forgeries
By: Richard Spilsbury.
Series: Solve that crime!
Publisher: Enslow Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley Heights, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780766033788
Subjects: Forgery; Fraud
Description: "Learn how forensics solves the mystery of conterfeit and forged objects, from fake money to false Vermeers"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Making fakes; title: Banknotes under the spotlight; title: Making safer banknotes; title: Copying coins; title: Dangerous counterfeits; title: Fake luxuries; title: Pirate disks; title: Suspicious spares; title: Looking closely at art; title: Foiling a forger; title: Revising history; title: Investigating the shroud; title: Identity crimes; title: In the field : careers in forensics.