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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;thecointrader, post: 1489323, member: 6477&quot;]Once upon a time there were three policemen who collected coins...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&#039;Cop X&#039; didn&#039;t have a lot of numismatic knowledge, but he had considerable&nbsp; savings and used it to build a collection of PCGS Certified&nbsp; Uncirculated Large Cents...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&#039;Cop Y&#039; was struggling financially but had a lot of numismatic knowledge&nbsp; from reading and studying coins. He collected inexpensive circulated and&nbsp; uncirculated coins and placed them in folders and albums...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&#039;Cop Z&#039; was numismatically uneducated, yet financially well-off like Cop X,&nbsp; and he used his resources to collect NGC Certified Proof Half Dimes...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Over time, Cops X and Z used their savings to acquire many expensive and&nbsp; valuable coins, much to the envy of Cop Y, who had a large family, an&nbsp; expensive mortgage and a wife who would purchase a new outfit and a new pair of shoes every Saturday at the shopping mall.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As time passed, Cop Y began to realize that he would never have the&nbsp; means to acquire expensive and scarce coins like Cops X and Z, so Cop Y&nbsp; decided to add a few &#039;replica&#039; coins to his collection, in lieu of the&nbsp; scarce and expensive certified coins that Cops X and Z could afford.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>When Cops X and Z saw Cop Y&#039;s newly acquired replica coins, they became&nbsp; envious thinking that the coins were real. Cop Y didn&#039;t want to admit&nbsp; that his coins were replica&#039;s, but at the same time he became frustrated&nbsp; at the attempts by the other two policemen to buy his nice &#039;coins&#039; at&nbsp; low ball offers.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>After months of frustration, Cop Y finally decided to have his coins&nbsp; stamped with his name on one side. This would allow Cop Y to identify&nbsp; the coins that were replica&#039;s in his collection, and also discourage the&nbsp; other two policemen from offering to purchase coins with obvious&nbsp; damage.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Your coin is one of the coins from the historic collection of &#039;Cop Y&#039; and is&nbsp; so marked. While the other policemen never had coins stamped &#039;COPX or&nbsp; COPZ&#039;, all of the replica coins of Cop Y are stamped with his name: &#039;COPY&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; This led to the development of the Hobby Protection Act, and today all&nbsp; replica coins are required to have &#039;COPY&#039; stamped on one side as tribute&nbsp; to Cop Y for beginning the tradition of identifying replica&nbsp; coins.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>-thecointrader</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>P.S. Please <b>do not</b> take this post seriously. I just felt like posting a numismatic <b>fable</b> today. Coins marked &#039;COPY&#039; are only relica or tribute coins, and are <b>not historic or valuable</b> in a numismatic sense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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