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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2244358, member: 112"]You got a short memory Dave ? There's previous case law on exactly this issue of Daniel's so called fantasy coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>“a deviation of one digit in the date on a coin is not likely to distinguish it sufficiently from the original to alert an ‘unsuspecting person of ordinary observation and care’ whom the criminal counterfeit law protects, let alone the ‘ignorant, unthinking and credulous’ who are not excluded from the protection of civil consumer law.” The Commission went on to find “a purchaser lacking access to a manual…listing the precise dates of issue of the coins in question, might be fooled as to the authenticity of a coin identical in all respects but the date of the original issue”.</i> 196 F.T.C. at 222. </p><p><br /></p><p>Stuff like that you just can't ignore. And as previously mentioned, the defendant in that case got away with what they were doing for quite a while too. Until somebody filed a complaint against them that is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2244358, member: 112"]You got a short memory Dave ? There's previous case law on exactly this issue of Daniel's so called fantasy coins. [I]“a deviation of one digit in the date on a coin is not likely to distinguish it sufficiently from the original to alert an ‘unsuspecting person of ordinary observation and care’ whom the criminal counterfeit law protects, let alone the ‘ignorant, unthinking and credulous’ who are not excluded from the protection of civil consumer law.” The Commission went on to find “a purchaser lacking access to a manual…listing the precise dates of issue of the coins in question, might be fooled as to the authenticity of a coin identical in all respects but the date of the original issue”.[/I] 196 F.T.C. at 222. Stuff like that you just can't ignore. And as previously mentioned, the defendant in that case got away with what they were doing for quite a while too. Until somebody filed a complaint against them that is.[/QUOTE]
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