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<p>[QUOTE="fatima, post: 1009526, member: 22143"]IMO, I don't see where Mr. Carr has done anything wrong myself. There are a lot of hypotheticals being tossed around here as an indictment that Mr. Carr has done something wrong, but as of this moment none of them have happened. The biggest argument against this re-strike is that someone might attempt to commit fraud with this coin by passing it off as a long lost version that "just" turned up </p><p><br /></p><p>Yet a coin collector who might be interested in this coin and more importantly might pay a lot of money for it, has the responsibility to check up on the history of the coin they are attempting to purchase. It shouldn't take more than a few webclicks to discover this coin does not exist real life so at best the collector shouldn't pay more than nominal amount for the coin. If the collector doesn't do this, and think they are getting something that is too good to be true, well..., this will end up as one of life's lessons for Mr. collector. We are not yet a complete nanny state.</p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, such a scenario is very unlikely to happen and thus I don't see where Mr. Carr, if the law allows for it, is doing anything wrong. What I like about it is that if the coin gets people talking about what the government has done to the money in this country, then more power to him. The creation of the 1964 Peace Dollar and the subsequent withdrawal by the government is one of the things that people should study instead of it being being buried in obscure history. We need more of this, not less. Thanks Mr. Carr for your work.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="fatima, post: 1009526, member: 22143"]IMO, I don't see where Mr. Carr has done anything wrong myself. There are a lot of hypotheticals being tossed around here as an indictment that Mr. Carr has done something wrong, but as of this moment none of them have happened. The biggest argument against this re-strike is that someone might attempt to commit fraud with this coin by passing it off as a long lost version that "just" turned up Yet a coin collector who might be interested in this coin and more importantly might pay a lot of money for it, has the responsibility to check up on the history of the coin they are attempting to purchase. It shouldn't take more than a few webclicks to discover this coin does not exist real life so at best the collector shouldn't pay more than nominal amount for the coin. If the collector doesn't do this, and think they are getting something that is too good to be true, well..., this will end up as one of life's lessons for Mr. collector. We are not yet a complete nanny state. In any case, such a scenario is very unlikely to happen and thus I don't see where Mr. Carr, if the law allows for it, is doing anything wrong. What I like about it is that if the coin gets people talking about what the government has done to the money in this country, then more power to him. The creation of the 1964 Peace Dollar and the subsequent withdrawal by the government is one of the things that people should study instead of it being being buried in obscure history. We need more of this, not less. Thanks Mr. Carr for your work.[/QUOTE]
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