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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mikenoodle, post: 1003547, member: 307&quot;]I agree with green 18. The debate has been on point, and non-confrontational. Mr. Carr has been very forthright and the discussion has been debate rather than argument.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, it is exactly that difference that you describe above. The dreamer reference. The lack of ability to discern readily. The &quot;COPY doesn&#039;t work for me&quot; mentality. That &quot;small difference&quot; is what I think most object to. Unfortunately, you weren&#039;t a US Mint employee in 1965 nor were you Israel Switt with the 1933 $20 golds. We can&#039;t be those individuals and we can&#039;t stand in their shoes, the coins don&#039;t exist. The mere fact that your coin was at one time what you are professing it to be is not enough and just plain wrong. Next time you want to know what a Mint employee felt like looking over the coining chamber in 1965, imagine it was 1935 and look at a legal to own Peace Dollar. The feeling is the same except without the disregard for the law.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is NOT what it used to be, it is now defaced and mutilated. You are not selling what the coin was, you are selling what the coin now is, which is NOT what you are advertising it as. You are NOT the US Mint and if the United States gives you the authority to do this, then they will open the floodgates for people of both honest and not so honest intentions. Regardless of your intent, Mr. Carr, (and I don&#039;t believe that you&#039;re trying to counterfeit coins), but instead make an interesting and unique collectible for the world as well as a living for yourself at the same time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately the road to ruin is paved with good intentions and even if (and I say if because I don&#039;t know you or your motivation) your intentions are pure, the window that it opens for the unscrupulous and devious is far too dangerous to allow. If you can&#039;t see that, then no amount of explaining will do so. If you can and you&#039;re doing it anyway, then you should be prosecuted and punished to the fullest extent of the law.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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