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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 1418248, member: 4781&quot;]You have your opinion and you are entitled to it.&nbsp;&nbsp; But the fact is, there is no US law which establishes the amount of change to a coin to nullify the legal tender status.&nbsp;&nbsp; So no, I don&#039;t &quot;know it&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; We are <i>never</i> going to agree on this issue.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I have an 1812 Brazil 960-Reis struck over a Mexico City Mint Bust 8-Reals.&nbsp;&nbsp; But foreign laws regarding coinage do no apply in the United States.&nbsp;&nbsp; I say again: there is no US law which establishes the amount of change to a coin to nullify the legal tender status.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Is the Morgan dollar lump still legal tender ?&nbsp;&nbsp; Please point to the law which establishes that it isn&#039;t.&nbsp;&nbsp; Of course, nobody is going to <i>accept</i> it as a dollar. But the actual legal status (in terms of legal tender) is not defined. I&#039;d also like to point out that when I over-strike a coin, traces of the original design remain, and so my over-strikes are <i>never</i> &quot;completely unreckognizable&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I never claim that my over-strikes are from antiquity. I clearly state their vintage and origins, which is a combination of old and new.&nbsp;&nbsp; Your example gold crown fragment coins are a combination of old and new.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You are free to call it whatever you like. I&#039;m <i>significantly</i> changing the coin, but I am not 100% obliterating it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You should reconsider your position on what &quot;most other people think&quot;. Let them speak for themselves (see the poll at the top of this thread).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I said existing .900 coins are generally more expensive <i>per ounce</i>. I can get fabricated ready-to-use (rimmed, annealed, burnished) 1-troy-oz 999 silver blanks for $0.75 over &quot;spot&quot;. So, at present, these blanks would cost me about $32.75 . Ordinary Morgan and Peace dollars currently cost at least $28 in bulk.&nbsp; At 0.77 troy oz per coin, that comes out to the equivalent of over $36.25 per troy oz of silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS:</p><p>This web page has a brief but good synopsis of the laws regarding &quot;mutilation&quot; of US coins:</p><p><a href="http://www.parkpennies.com/pressed-penny/penny-pressing-legal.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.parkpennies.com/pressed-penny/penny-pressing-legal.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.parkpennies.com/pressed-penny/penny-pressing-legal.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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