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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1106839, member: 26302"]I see what you are saying Mike, but to me smacks of legal twisting of facts to suit his use. Let me put it this way, how do we respond when the Chinese come back and say, "well, you are allowing a private mint in the US to produce fakes of US coinage without any markings, so why are you trying to make us stop?"</p><p><br /></p><p>A four page commentary and background on the specifics of the case is not going to fly in the court of public opinion. We will look like hypocrites trying to pick on a foreign nation with different rules than we ourselves live by. This is why I think there has to be an ABSOLUTE rule that ANY "item" that falsely appears to be a collectible coin MUST have the word COPY stamped in it. Anything else and we as a hobby lose any public sympathy we may have gotten. If public opinion considers us hypocrites, then we lose the war because why then should Congress try to help anymore?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1106839, member: 26302"]I see what you are saying Mike, but to me smacks of legal twisting of facts to suit his use. Let me put it this way, how do we respond when the Chinese come back and say, "well, you are allowing a private mint in the US to produce fakes of US coinage without any markings, so why are you trying to make us stop?" A four page commentary and background on the specifics of the case is not going to fly in the court of public opinion. We will look like hypocrites trying to pick on a foreign nation with different rules than we ourselves live by. This is why I think there has to be an ABSOLUTE rule that ANY "item" that falsely appears to be a collectible coin MUST have the word COPY stamped in it. Anything else and we as a hobby lose any public sympathy we may have gotten. If public opinion considers us hypocrites, then we lose the war because why then should Congress try to help anymore?[/QUOTE]
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