No need to get a big attitude over my comment. My point was that it was clearly stated (to me anyway) that the Liberian govt. authorized the coins, not the US mint. It pays to read ads like this very carefully. JMO, but I saw nothing in the ad that was obscure or obfuscate. I thought that would be pretty clear to most people, but maybe not all people, or maybe a new collector. I see ads like this all the time on TV and in magazines, and I don't see the US mint commenting on all of them. If you're going to order from a US site (or some site in a different country) that isn't in your native language, then let the buyer beware. And I never said "I guess you are saying that if someone doesn't have a firm grasp of the English language they should not be a numismatist? ****... they won't even be able to say it." - you did!
Fair, just to keep the government from saying the picture did not accurately depict what the buyer would get.
No big attitude... just reading what you wrote. And I think this pretty much clarifies the "obscure and obfuscate" part... Consumers may find the advertisements for this product confusing because the National Collector's Mint uses phrases such as "legal tender dollar." The product itself may be confusing because it bears the denomination "One Dollar." Congress did not authorize the National Collector's Mint product, and the United States Government does not endorse it. The U.S. Mint thinks it's "confusing".
Legal tender dollar in Liberia, and other countries can call their coins dollars or whatever they want. I agree that someone that doesn't read and understand all of the ad could be confused by it. All I can say is that I myself wasn't confused by it at all. Outfits like NCM survive only because there are too many people that can't "read between the lines" like more experienced collectors can, and misinterpret the ads to make them think they're getting something special, when they're not. I'm sure these type ads are often meant to confuse people.
