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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1009612, member: 26302"]We are getting into lawyer arguments here, semantics and trying to twist the wording of the Hobby Act. You can do that as much as you wish sir, to me the plain reading of the Hobby Act is to prohibit any replica, reproduction, alteration, etc to resemble a coin that was struck. Anything under that unbrella needs to be marked COPY, permanently, in the specified way. This covers the 1944d to 1914d, that also would be illegal to make unless stamped COPY. Your coin as well, since it is replicating a KNOWN coin, regardless of whether they are still available. Strike a 1963 silver dollar and do whatever you want, I don't care. Just because a coin isn't available on the marketplace does not mean its legal to forge them, the 1873s half dime is not for sale, does that mean I can import thousands of them from China legally? How about the 1849 Double Eagle? You even trying to say its legal to alter a 1944d to 1914d without marking it as a copy shows how fallacious your argument is. If that is true, then NO forgeries need to be marked as COPY ever. End of Hobby Act and most likely end to US coin collecting, as the flood of fakes cannot be stopped, since they are "legal".</p><p><br /></p><p>I know I would not change Mr. Carr's mind, but think about it people. His arguments basically repeal the Hobby Act. How do you think this will affect coin collecting? How about the value of your coins now? If we allow this to openly be done in the US, then we have no standing to protest Chinese fakes, since they will point out we are faking US coins right here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1009612, member: 26302"]We are getting into lawyer arguments here, semantics and trying to twist the wording of the Hobby Act. You can do that as much as you wish sir, to me the plain reading of the Hobby Act is to prohibit any replica, reproduction, alteration, etc to resemble a coin that was struck. Anything under that unbrella needs to be marked COPY, permanently, in the specified way. This covers the 1944d to 1914d, that also would be illegal to make unless stamped COPY. Your coin as well, since it is replicating a KNOWN coin, regardless of whether they are still available. Strike a 1963 silver dollar and do whatever you want, I don't care. Just because a coin isn't available on the marketplace does not mean its legal to forge them, the 1873s half dime is not for sale, does that mean I can import thousands of them from China legally? How about the 1849 Double Eagle? You even trying to say its legal to alter a 1944d to 1914d without marking it as a copy shows how fallacious your argument is. If that is true, then NO forgeries need to be marked as COPY ever. End of Hobby Act and most likely end to US coin collecting, as the flood of fakes cannot be stopped, since they are "legal". I know I would not change Mr. Carr's mind, but think about it people. His arguments basically repeal the Hobby Act. How do you think this will affect coin collecting? How about the value of your coins now? If we allow this to openly be done in the US, then we have no standing to protest Chinese fakes, since they will point out we are faking US coins right here.[/QUOTE]
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