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<p>[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 3575827, member: 29751"]Well, as for the 1804 silver dollar, that's a different animal all together. There were never any 1804-dated silver dollars struck in 1804, so it can't be a "restrike" of something that never existed. The 1804 dollar is a fantasy coin, even though struck by an official government. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for the coins you are talking about - relative moderns that are dated earlier but produced later: they would be of two types:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) Coins that can definitively be differentiated from those struck earlier, and </p><p>2) Coins that can not be differentiated from those struck earlier.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those of type 1) could <i>potentially </i>be called restrikes or even just varieties, but those of type 2 cannot be known and it is a philosophical/academic point only.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess I'd go farther and just say, does it really matter? For something to be a difference it has to make a difference. If the coins of type 1) are traded and collected the same as those struck in the original year, then differentiating them is sort of an academic exercise. It's sort of like collecting RPMs or die marriages or other microscopic (inconsequential) varieties. If the market largely doesn't care, then it doesn't really matter what you call it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 3575827, member: 29751"]Well, as for the 1804 silver dollar, that's a different animal all together. There were never any 1804-dated silver dollars struck in 1804, so it can't be a "restrike" of something that never existed. The 1804 dollar is a fantasy coin, even though struck by an official government. As for the coins you are talking about - relative moderns that are dated earlier but produced later: they would be of two types: 1) Coins that can definitively be differentiated from those struck earlier, and 2) Coins that can not be differentiated from those struck earlier. Those of type 1) could [I]potentially [/I]be called restrikes or even just varieties, but those of type 2 cannot be known and it is a philosophical/academic point only. I guess I'd go farther and just say, does it really matter? For something to be a difference it has to make a difference. If the coins of type 1) are traded and collected the same as those struck in the original year, then differentiating them is sort of an academic exercise. It's sort of like collecting RPMs or die marriages or other microscopic (inconsequential) varieties. If the market largely doesn't care, then it doesn't really matter what you call it.[/QUOTE]
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