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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 2239890, member: 4781&quot;]Date aside, an over-struck (or otherwise altered) coin is still the same basic coin type that it was originally. Market valuations and opinions on such items can vary widely, of course.</p><p><br /></p><p>A genuine coin which has been altered so as to have a date which was not officially issued for that coin type does not itself &quot;purport&quot; to be an original numismatic item because the thing that it is purporting to be does not exist as an original numismatic item.</p><p><br /></p><p>The type of thing that the HPA statutes were designed to address would be, for example, the practice of taking a 1944-D cent and cutting off parts of the 4 to make it look like a rare &quot;1914-D&quot; cent. Such a coin could <i>purport</i> to be an original numismatic item because genuine original 1914-D cents exist, and they are traded in the marketplace and listed in valuation guides at prices far in excess of those for 1944-D cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>The HPA was not intended to prevent non-fraudulent coin alterations such as jewelry, &quot;love&quot; tokens, &quot;hobo&quot; nickels, plating/colorizing, etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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