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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Coinchemistry 2012, post: 2608827, member: 28107&quot;]I don&#039;t know where you and your followers get the notion that a fake or counterfeit need be an exact replica or copy of something.&nbsp; It certainly isn&#039;t from the law.&nbsp; The Chinese have produced counterfeits of dates and/or mint marks never issued by the Mint.&nbsp;&nbsp; An 1894-CC Morgan is a counterfeit, the date notwithstanding.&nbsp; These pieces are almost ubiquitously and uncontroversially referred to as fakes and counterfeits.&nbsp; The overstrike process is a huge red herring; the original coin is destroyed and you imprint new devices, mottos, dates, mint marks, denominations, etc.&nbsp; Without government authorization you are falsely coining new pieces in the resemblance or similitude of U.S. coinage.&nbsp; It isn&#039;t that complicated.</p><p><br /></p><p>The alteration/mutilation argument is also a distraction.&nbsp; Nowhere in 18 U.S.C. 331 does the statute that all mutilation or alteration is legal absent an intent to defraud.&nbsp; It says only that fraudulent alteration is illegal without preventing the application of other statutes to include 18 U.S.C. 485-490.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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