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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nds76, post: 32274, member: 1083&quot;]1/16/05- Many of those &quot;commemorative&quot; coins you see advertised on TV or in print are, in a manner of speaking, fool&#039;s gold, not the rare or official collector&#039;s items they claim to be. For example, 1 &quot;commemorative&quot; set consisted of nothing more than colorized silver dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>US Mint Director Henrietta Holsman Fore says tens of&nbsp; millions of dollars are spent on bogus coins because of misleading ads, and an unsettling number of customers are deceived if a company uses the Mint&#039;s name to promote its products.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Mint is seeking the authority to fine the scam artists $5,000 for each print ad and $25,000 for each broadcast commercial that misuses the name or emblems of the Mint or the US Treasury, but Fore says she wants to emphasize that it&#039;s never just the fines that hurt a company in these cases. There&#039;s also the negative public attention, which could mean the loss of millions of dollars in profits.</p><p><br /></p><p>More information about how to tell legitimate commemorative coins from fakes can be found on the Mint&#039;s website, <a href="http://www.usmint.gov" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usmint.gov" rel="nofollow">www.usmint.gov</a> </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=2816107&amp;nav=0RbQVFiB" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=2816107&amp;nav=0RbQVFiB" rel="nofollow">http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=2816107&amp;nav=0RbQVFiB</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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