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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 1001525, member: 4781&quot;]Greetings everyone,</p><p><br /></p><p>Ever since I was a coin collector kid in the 1970s, I day-dreamed about what it would be like to be able to grab a freshly-minted 1964-D Peace Silver Dollar just as it came off the press, just before dropping into the bin.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now I get to live that dream - as close as will ever be possible, anyway.&nbsp;&nbsp; Imagine how much fun it is to be able to have your way with a coin press, some original Peace Dollars (to use as &quot;blanks&quot;), and some &quot;1964&quot; dies.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now I have something I always wanted - my own &quot;1964&quot; Peace Dollar.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did the 2009-DC &quot;proofed&quot; Silver Eagles because I thought they would be neat.&nbsp;&nbsp; These and the &quot;1964-D&quot; fantasy over-struck coins are certainly not for everyone - only a miniority of collectors would have interest in them.&nbsp;&nbsp; But they started out as legal tender, and technically still are - but I don&#039;t in any way endorse their use as such.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you take a dollar bill and stamp &quot;where&#039;s George&quot; on it, it is still legal tender.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you attempt to make that dollar bill look like a $100, and then try to pass it as $100, then that is highly illegal.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m not changing the face value of the host coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; No metal is ever added or removed.&nbsp;&nbsp; And one thing I&#039;m NOT doing, or will ever do, is make something that actually exists.&nbsp;&nbsp; 2009 &quot;proof&quot; Silver Eagles do not exist, and no Silver Eagles ever had a &quot;DC&quot; mint mark.&nbsp;&nbsp; 1964 Peace Dollars do not exist (according to the government) and in the unlikely event that a government-made one ever turned up it would be illegal to own (unlike mine).&nbsp;&nbsp; I could see making &quot;1975&quot; quarters out of some other quarters and selling them as a novelty (because no 1975-dated quarters were ever made). But making a false 1955 doubled die cent or 1922 no-D cent is something I would never do because genuine examples of those exist in the marketplace.</p><p><br /></p><p>These coins could eventually be sought-after offshoots for some advanced collectors who want something &quot;extra&quot; to add to their sets.&nbsp;&nbsp; And the mintages will be far lower than other coins in the host series. No more than 2,000 of the &quot;1964-D&quot; fantasy over-struck Peace dollars will be made.&nbsp;&nbsp; The lowest mintage Silver Eagle is the 1995-W proof, with about 30,000 minted.&nbsp;&nbsp; The production of the 2009-DC &quot;proofed&quot; Silver Eagles will be less than one-third of that.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are, or course, no guarantees of any kind on future values.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact that I use a surplus Denver Mint press, and advanced engraving and minting techniques, separates these from anything issued by Chinese counterfeiters.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Chinese are blatantly counterfeiting legal-tender US coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; They take a piece of junk metal (not even silver) stamp &quot;ONE DOLLAR&quot; on it (as a Morgan or Peace dollar or whatever, with a date and markings the same as original genuine pieces), and then sell them as &quot;replicas&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; But the &quot;replica&quot; stamp is just a photo-shop trick for eBay listings, and most arrive here in the USA without any &quot;replica&quot; or &quot;copy&quot; stamp.&nbsp;&nbsp; They are so cheaply made that they could manufacture them and spend them for a dollar and still make money (the traditional definition of currency counterfeiting).&nbsp;&nbsp; The Chinese pieces are counterfeits.&nbsp;&nbsp; Mine are genuine, but altered coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; Defacing genuine coins is perfectly legal, so long as it isn&#039;t for FRAUDULENT purposes.&nbsp;&nbsp; Mine are being sold with full disclosure as to their true nature.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some pictures.</p><p><br /></p><p>First, here is a Chinese &quot;1964&quot; Peace Dollar (struck on junk metal - no silver content, &quot;copy&quot; stamp is photo-shop trick - not on actual fake):</p><p><img src="http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/2/8/0/4/3/7/webimg/379888837_o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my &quot;1964-D&quot; fantasy over-struck Peace dollar (struck on genuine circa 1922-1935 Peace silver dollar - no metal added or removed, just pushed around):</p><p><img src="http://www.dc-coin.com/images/products/detail/mm_100_1964d_obv.1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.dc-coin.com/images/products/detail/mm_100_1964d_rev.1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a picture of the 2009-DC &quot;proofed&quot; Silver Eagle (struck over a genuine non-proof US Mint 2009 Silver Eagle that originally had no mint mark):</p><p><img src="http://designscomputed.com/coin_pics/ase_2009DC_proofed.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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