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Message:: [QUOTE="dcarr, post: 1939741, member: 4781"]No, that is not what I said at all. The basic design on the finished coin is NOT changed - it is the same basic design that it started out having.   If I buy someone's product, that particular item that I bought is entirely mine, and I am free to do with it as I wish (within reason). No pictures of an original 1964-D Peace Dollar have ever been released or published.   It is doubtful that any pictures exist.   So nobody knows exactly what they looked like.   Nobody knows what "style" the date was on the original coins.   But since the one entity that counts the most (the US Treasury) says that NONE exist (all were destroyed and none were issued), we have to go with that.   I've taken someone else's design, and after a specific alteration to one part of it (the date), I applied it back onto the thing that had that design originally.   The resulting product is not a "copy".   It is a "modification". You are certainly entitled to call that "semantics" if you wish.   But realize that I can just as easily consider your points to be "semantics" as well.[/QUOTE]