"counterfeit of" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when something is an imitation of the original thing. For example: "The painting was a counterfeit of an original masterpiece by Van Gogh."
Falwell believed that the Antichrist, being a counterfeit of Christ, will of necessity be a male Jew.
The makeshift camps outside the City walls were so full of sleeping refugees that the area was "the Counterfeit of the Great Bed of Ware".
He is a flawless counterfeit of the bloated corpses photographed at Sharpsburg, Gettysburg and Spotsylvania.Together with Mr Hodge and his fellow rebs, the author relives the life of a confederate soldier.
You can draw a variety of political conclusions from the mess we're in: either the public hasn't been worthy of the American dream, or the government has been peddling a counterfeit of it.
It expresses a media theory developed by, among others, Walter Lippmann, who after the First World War identified the components of wartime mythmaking as "the casual fact, the creative imagination, the will to believe, and out of these three elements, a counterfeit of reality".
(When Shepherd reads that "Gatsby, his hands still in his pockets, was reclining against the mantelpiece in a strained counterfeit of perfect ease," Jim Fletcher, the actor who plays Gatsby, leans at a sixty-degree angle against the backrest of an office chair, deadpan).
His obsession was fueled, in part, by his large stash of counterfeit DVDs of "The West Wing".
So you end up presenting a kind of counterfeit version of yourself to the world, with soundbites and jokes".
Thousands of counterfeit versions of official London 2012 merchandise have been seized by customs teams.
"The sophistication and precision of some counterfeit copies of legitimate drugs make a reliable estimate of the number of counterfeits impossible," Mr. Lutter said, according to a transcript.
Counterfeiting of consumer goods remains a big headache, too.
