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<p>[QUOTE="EyeAppealingCoins, post: 3316196, member: 96749"]There is no requirement that the piece imitated remain extant. And a 1922-P Peace Dollar over struck using false dies to look like a 1964 dated Peace Dollar is an original numismatic item "which has been altered or modified in such a manner that it could reasonably purport to be an original numismatic item other than the one which was altered or modified." 16 CFR 304.1(d). It is now a 1922 problem coin modified to look like a 1964- D Peace Dollar rather than the 1922 Peace Dollar it was struck as. The definition goes on to contemplate restrikes by governmental entities, exempting those from the definition of imitation numismatic item.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for "fantasy dates" the issue has already been addressed by the FTC. See <i>In re Gold Bullion Int'l Ltd.</i>, 92 F.T.C. 196, 223 (1977) ("[M]inor variations in dates between an original and its alleged 'copy' are insufficient to deprive the latter of its status as a 'reproduction, copy or counterfeit of an 'original numismatic item' and do not eliminate the requirement that the latter be marked with the word 'Copy.'"). The overstrike issue is a red herring. He is effectively striking an imitation numismatic item over an original numismatic item which does not change the calculus under the plain meaning of any of the relevant statutory or administrative regulations.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="EyeAppealingCoins, post: 3316196, member: 96749"]There is no requirement that the piece imitated remain extant. And a 1922-P Peace Dollar over struck using false dies to look like a 1964 dated Peace Dollar is an original numismatic item "which has been altered or modified in such a manner that it could reasonably purport to be an original numismatic item other than the one which was altered or modified." 16 CFR 304.1(d). It is now a 1922 problem coin modified to look like a 1964- D Peace Dollar rather than the 1922 Peace Dollar it was struck as. The definition goes on to contemplate restrikes by governmental entities, exempting those from the definition of imitation numismatic item. As for "fantasy dates" the issue has already been addressed by the FTC. See [I]In re Gold Bullion Int'l Ltd.[/I], 92 F.T.C. 196, 223 (1977) ("[M]inor variations in dates between an original and its alleged 'copy' are insufficient to deprive the latter of its status as a 'reproduction, copy or counterfeit of an 'original numismatic item' and do not eliminate the requirement that the latter be marked with the word 'Copy.'"). The overstrike issue is a red herring. He is effectively striking an imitation numismatic item over an original numismatic item which does not change the calculus under the plain meaning of any of the relevant statutory or administrative regulations.[/QUOTE]
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