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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 1116310, member: 4781&quot;]The fact that my over-strikes were produced near Denver, using a surplus Denver Mint coin press, by a person who was born near the Denver Mint and has designed coins for the US Mint adds a certain &quot;cachet&quot; to these &quot;1964-D&quot; over-strikes that can not really be duplicatated by anyone else.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chinese quality has been improving, but their top-notch equipment and talent is (fortunately) not being devoted to making coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; Any company with a substantial investment in equipment and technology is not going to use it for a somewhat risky venture that has a relatively-low payback.&nbsp;&nbsp; So the entities making fake coins in China are 3rd-rate &quot;back-alley&quot; operations.&nbsp;&nbsp; And even with top-of-the-line equipment, making high-quality &quot;copies&quot; is much harder than you think.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a degree in mechanical engineering and I wrote my own digital sculpting program.&nbsp;&nbsp; It took me years to get all the necessary aspects of producing these coins perfected.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a picture of the current Chinese &quot;1964-D&quot; dollar (crude, no silver content, not struck on a legal-tender dollar, already looks beat-up right off the press):</p><p><img src="http://www.wolflink.net/~kiyote/1964dp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Compared to:</p><p><img src="http://designscomputed.com/coin_pics/peace_pair_A.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://designscomputed.com/coin_pics/peace_pair_B.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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