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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1418111, member: 112&quot;]No Daniel it does not make any difference. It doesn&#039;t make any difference at all. And there is no legal tender issue, none. Because the pieces you produce are absolutely and positively NOT legal tender. And you know it.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I said Daniel, the practice of using existing coins as planchets for new coins is hundreds of years old. Just about every mint in the world has done it at one time or another, with the possible exception of the US mint. And when the French mint took a Russian coin and over-struck that coin with their own design, that coin became a French coin. It was no longer a Russian coin anymore than the pieces you produce are US coins after you over-strike them. Yeah they used to be Russian coins, but they aren&#039;t anymore. And your pieces used to be US coins, but they aren&#039;t anymore.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you took a Morgan or a Peace dollar, and pounded and beat it with a hammer. Bending it up and folding it over and over until it was a roundish lump, completely unrecognizable. Is it still a US coin ? No, of course it isn&#039;t. Then it&#039;s just a lump of silver alloy. Exactly the same as if you done the same thing to a silver bar of the same fineness and weight.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or, if you found say a gold crown from antiquity. And you took that gold crown and hammered it, beat it, until it was nothing but a lump of gold. And then you broke of pieces of that gold lump and struck them into coins - is it still a gold crown from antiquity ? No of course it isn&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>And that&#039;s what you&#039;re doing to the US coins Daniel. You are smashing them with great force. Completely obliterating the previous design and forever changing that coin, altering it to use your word, into something 100% completely different. It now becomes a Daniel Carr piece, it&#039;s not even a coin by definition.</p><p><br /></p><p>But if you wish to try and get people to believe that because you are using US coins as planchets for the pieces that you produce, and that that somehow makes your pieces different, or more special than if you had just used a silver alloy blank - be my guest. But you&#039;ll not get me to believe it, I know better. And I think most other people do too.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for your claim that .999 silver blanks are less expensive than a Morgan or Peace dollar that sells for melt. You&#039;re gonna have a hard time convincing me of that one too. For how is .900 silver more expensive than .999 silver ? This does not compute.</p><p><br /></p><p>But of course if you are paying more for melt value Morgan and Peace dollars than you would have to pay for .999 silver blanks - Daniel, you really need to find another source for your planchets. I know a few dealers right here on this forum who would be ecstatic to sell you junk silver Morgans and Peace dollars for .999 silver prices.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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