The most glaring counterfeit marker on a recent spate of fake $2 circulation coins (left) is the polar bear's right paw. On genuine toonies (right), the bear's paw is more uniform.

Since March, collector Brent Mackie has searched more than 200 boxes of $2 circulation coins - about 100,000 toonies altogether - to search for counterfeits.

Mackie told CCN.

Mackie is mostly cataloguing these fakes - named after the tell-tale marker on the polar bear's right paw - but he's also diving into the fakes struck at the so-called an advanced counterfeiting operation that minted 2004- and 2005-dated toonies before the Royal Canadian Mounted Police shut it down.

Mackie believes there could be millions of the Camel Toe fakes in circulation due to the which indicates poor-quality dies are

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