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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BooksB4Coins, post: 2796323, member: 36230&quot;]Why not? It worked for a certain someone and a precedent has been set. Plus, that&#039;s exactly where the &quot;idea&quot; for his &quot;1964 Morgans&quot; came from...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know.... it in part reads very similarly to Carr&#039;s and/or the usual fan justifications imo. They appear to be fully disclosing what their product really is, which has long been a crutch used to justify someone else&#039;s and to laud him for his integrity. What&#039;s good for the goose...</p><p><br /></p><p>If a change to one of two digits of the date on one side is enough to differentiate or identify a &quot;fantasy piece&quot; as not being the real thing, even when minted using a genuine coin as a convenient choice of planchet material, using a larger and heavier blank of a different composition, along with the&nbsp; fact that the design is less exacting should only help to make them more obvious, right?</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;<i>These are not copies of Morgan silver dollars</i>&quot; and &quot;<i>this can&#039;t be a copy of one since they don&#039;t exist</i>&quot;.... sounds very familiar, doesn&#039;t it?</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not a fan of the copying no matter who does it, but if the greater hobby wishes to accept, or in some cases embrace it, it needs to be across the board and regardless of who produced it. The all too often cited justifications and convenient excuses for why copies made by one person are okay, while a very similar product made by someone else is &quot;crap&quot; is simple hypocrisy, especially considering how often the &quot;art&quot; argument is made.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s an old saying that really goes to the heart of the matter here, and is &quot;one man&#039;s trash is another man&#039;s treasure&quot;. One has the choice to drive an econo-box or a Porsche, or to live in a stone and timber frame house or a mobile home. In this very hobby one has a choice to collect only the most original rarities, or they can collect whatever comes out of their pocket and catches the eye; all depends on what they like and can afford, so why should it be any different with &quot;fantasy&quot; copies? Those who take endless offense to others who do not share their appreciation, are willing to voice an opinion on, or god forbid criticize something they like and enjoy really should take a long look in the mirror before doing the very same thing to what someone else may like or enjoy. It works both ways.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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