Anti-Counterfeiting Educational Foundation

Recognizing the danger and urgency of the threat posed by the growing numbers of counterfeit coins entering the marketplace, leaders of the Industry Council for Tangible Assets, the Professional Numismatists Guild, and the American Numismatic Association sponsored an industrywide summit Aug. 1, 2016, in Anaheim, Calif. The summit brought together more than 60 attendees who decided that ICTA was best suited to supervise the creation of a task force to deal with the problem.

The Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force (ACTF) was launched Jan. 6, 2017, under the authority of the Industry Council for Tangible Assets, with a primary mission to educate law enforcement authorities & policy makers & to make them aware of the rising threat of counterfeiting, to mobilize law enforcement to attack counterfeiters where they are most vulnerable, & to provide expertise and other resources in the investigation and prosecution of counterfeiters and those involved at all levels of their distribution networks.