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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2107686, member: 15929&quot;]I could be wrong but violating the Hobby Protection Act is not a &quot;criminal offense&quot; as much as it is a &quot;civil offense&quot; where the recipient of a counterfeit coin could be taken to court to recover damages.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the OP&#039;s question, buying and selling known counterfeit&#039;s for collecting purposes is totally legitimate since any legal action will only occur in civil court proceedings where one party sue&#039;s the other party for selling them a coin not properly marked.</p><p><br /></p><p>If both parties agree that they knowingly participated in such a transaction then there doesn&#039;t seem to be any legal recourse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lot&#039;s of folks collect counterfeit coins which were produced as counterfeits and used in daily commercial transaction. The Henning Nickels come to mind yet there is not a collector out there that would deface a Henning Nickel with the requisite Hobby Protection Act markings.</p><p><br /></p><p>The real crime occurs when someone knowingly sells a counterfeit coin to an unsuspecting buyer who thinks its the real deal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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