Over-stuck coins... How?

How does the over-struck coin process work? Is a new die made that matches the coin to be modified? Is just the date changed? I am thinking of the guy, last name rhymes with barr, who sells these over-struck date modified coins.

 

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Daniel Carr is very famous for his over strike fantasy pieces. What he does is takes a real coin of that series and he creates a new die with a different date and strikes over the coin up to multiple times until he reaches the desired detail. It isn't illegal because they are fantasy coins(years the mint didn't produce them)

 

So, if he is making new dies, he is only the "date" away from a counterfeiter? Just asking, not accusing.

 

He isn't a counterfeiter although if it were a different date it would be but an over struck coin is totally different. With an over struck coin it is broad struck and you may still see details of the original coin underneath it. He isn't using blanks like the mint is

 

So, it's more like modifying an existing coin than making a new one? Makes a bit more sense now.

 

Yea at first it is confusing lol I didn't understand it either. You should look up his website and it will make alot more sense

 

Thanks for the info

 

Back in the day when coins were first produced, the United States Government "guaranteed" the assay of the metal content of the coins which they produced. Remember, literally ANYBODY could make a coin out of bullion which they had mined BUT only the US Government guaranteed that the coin was what the coin said it was.

So. Since Daniel Carr is using authentic US Coins, backed by the US Government as bonafide, his base metals are not counterfeit AND the images he places on the overstruck coin is considered an "alteration" (abberation by some and a downright travesty by others) to make the parent coin look like a coin which was never produced (or released) by the United States Government. It's metallic content (unlike true counterfeits which may or may not contain silver, gold, copper, or platinum) is correct.

Folks either like them or they hate them but, this is not the first time that collectible coins have been produced outside the US Mint.

As such, I expect that poeces produced by the Moonlight Mint will have as much collector status as those previously produced overstrikes.