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Message:: [QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3831202, member: 57463"]Back when the Gallery Mint Museum was more active, at least one coin dealer fell for a reproduction that was tooled to look like a circulated Large Cent or Half Cent. (When it was sent to a third-party grader, the TPG rejected it.) In this case, criminals will add the CC, re-tool the date, and then plate a Morgan dollar. An ounce of gold is worth far more than 0.7 ounces of silver. You will find them on eBay, of course, ultimately from China. This is a very old problem. On another topic, many sellers of ancient coins try to pass off fouree and test-marked Owls as the "emergency coinage of Athens 406 BC." If there were such an issue (still arguable; but acceptable), the coins issued by the City would not have been so easily re-forged to pass like good silver. A different design would have been used. So, too, here, 2500 years later. If the US Mint wanted to commemorate the 1921 Morgan Dollar -- only heaven knows why -- it could be achieved with many other motifs. But, as we know, the market is always right; and if the US Mint strikes the coins, the buyers will want them.[/QUOTE]