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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mikenoodle, post: 1001583, member: 307&quot;]Mr. Carr:</p><p><br /></p><p>To say that because you use retired US Mint equipment and advanced engraving and minting techniques and those differences make your products clearly different from the Chinese counterfeits is debatable. My opinion is that while your intent is to create a fantasy piece, they are IMHO to the untrained eye, virtually indistinguishable from the real thing, a credit to the quality of your work I might add. My problem is not with the intent of what you&#039;re minting but with what resellers then can and will do with the coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>The fact that they have been created with an equivalent US coin does not change the fact that they are altered by your dies and IMHO at that point lose their legal tender status. Could you imagine someone trying to spend one of your 64-D Peace dollars and the ensuing controversy that could arise?</p><p><br /></p><p>Filling a market niche is pure capitalism at it&#039;s finest, but when the end product is easily confused with the real, then it needs to be marked more clearly so as not to hide it&#039;s true nature.</p><p><br /></p><p>Respectfully,</p><p><br /></p><p>mikenoodle[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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