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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1289502, member: 66&quot;]Actually yes it IS illegal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Title 18 Sec 475</p><p>475. Imitating obligations or securities; advertisements</p><p><br /></p><p>Whoever designs, engraves, prints, makes, or executes, or utters, issues, distributes, circulates, or uses any business or professional card, notice, placard, circular, handbill, or advertisement in the likeness or similitude of any obligation or security of the United States issued under or authorized by any Act of Congress or writes, prints, <b>or otherwise impresses upon or attaches to any such instrument, obligation, or security, or any coin of the United States, any business or professional card, notice, or advertisement, or any notice or advertisement whatever, shall be fined under this title.</b> Nothing in this section applies to evidence of postage payment approved by the United States Postal Service.</p><p><br /></p><p>An older version specified a fine of $500 per violation.&nbsp; The movie studio that release the second Fantastic Four movie, Rise of the Silver Surfer, used stickered quarters as part of their advertising promotion and the government told them to cease and desist or face fines for each coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Counterstamps that can be traced to a specific person or business do have a collector base and the prices for such coins has risen.&nbsp; Unfortunately it has gotten many dealers to try and as ridiculous prices for coins with just random letters punched into them calling them &quot;Counterstamps&quot;.&nbsp; If it isn&#039;t traceable, it isn&#039;t a counterstamp, it&#039;s mutilation.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If it is done with the authorization of a government or official body then it is called a countermark.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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