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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1415903, member: 112&quot;]Of course it does. The only items that are legal tender are those coins or notes minted/printed and issued by the US Govt. An over-strike completely obliterates the original item so that it is no longer identifiable as the original item. At that point it is no longer an item issued by the US Govt. It is now something else entirely different.</p><p><br /></p><p>It doesn&#039;t matter what it used to be, it only matters what it is now. Example, if I take a US $5 bill. And I run that bill through a print machine and turn it into some rare old $5 bill - is it still legal tender ? No, of course not. Because it is no longer the item that was issued by the US Govt. It is something entirely different.</p><p><br /></p><p>Same thing with coins. Just because the original item was legal tender, if it is over-struck or over-printed, it is no longer legal tender. Legal tender has to be the genuine item, not some self created alteration.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Again, just because you think something is so, that does not make it so.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, it does apply to coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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