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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 1418950, member: 4781&quot;]Many types of &quot;altered&quot; coins retain their legal-tender status (plated, painted, counter-stamped, carved, etc.).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not exactly.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m not claiming that my over-strikes are legal-tender.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m claiming that I don&#039;t know.</p><p>What we DO disagree on is you say that there is no difference between strking over existing coins and striking on virgin blanks.</p><p>I say there most definitely is a difference.&nbsp;&nbsp; And that difference <i>may</i> include a difference in legal tender status:</p><p><br /></p><p>Striking over a legal-tender dollar:</p><p>A legal-tender dollar is &quot;consumed&quot; in the process. There is no net increase in the number of &quot;dollars&quot; in &quot;circulation&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Striking a &quot;dollar&quot; over a virgin blank:</p><p>There is a net increase in the number of &quot;dollars&quot; in &quot;circulation&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Based on past experience, I think they would just ignore what I send them and/or give the run-around.&nbsp;&nbsp; Because they don&#039;t know.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>An &quot;altered&quot; coin can still be legal tender.&nbsp;&nbsp; You claim that my over-strikes are not genuine US coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; My over-strikes are extensively-altered coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; There is no law, statute, or specifications for what amount of alteration constitutes a nullification of legal-tender status.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Federal Reserve will accept for excange mutilated coins which are <i>reckognizable</i>.&nbsp;&nbsp; They don&#039;t specify how they determine what constitutes &quot;recognizable&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Weight ?&nbsp;&nbsp; Metallic composition ?&nbsp;&nbsp; Appearance (design imprint) ?&nbsp;&nbsp; That might be something that could be attempted - send one to the Federal Reserve Bank with a letter explaining the piece, and see if they &quot;redeem&quot; it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Your claim was that the original design was &quot;100%&quot; obliterated.&nbsp;&nbsp; My photo is PROOF that the design is NOT 100% obliterated - it never is.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have many other examples which show more of the underlying design than that one.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I never claimed &quot;readily identifiable&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; But the obliteration of the original design is NOT 100%.&nbsp;&nbsp; Also, there are other identification methods available, such as metallurgical analysis.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&gt;&gt;&gt;&quot;people have enough common sense to recognize that your pieces simply cannot be legal tender &quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>If the government doesn&#039;t know, I suspect many people would not know either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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