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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CaptHenway, post: 8331861, member: 13813&quot;]I am reminded of the movie &quot;Harvey,&quot; where Jimmy Stewart plays this pleasant but slightly crazy gentleman named Dowd who travels through life with an invisible friend who happens to be a 6&#039; 3-1/2&quot; white rabbit named Harvey, who talks to him but not us. At one point a psychiatrist and a nurse track him down to his favorite bar, where Dowd is observed sitting in a booth having a pleasant conversation with the thin air. They ask the bartender &quot;Is he alone,&quot; and the bartender, who considers Mr. Dowd to be a good customer because he always buys drinks for Harvey as well, replies &quot;There&#039;s two schools of thought to that question.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Speaking as a former Senior Authenticator for the ANA, I do not consider Carr&#039;s legal tender design overstikes to be counterfeits, except for the 1964-D dollars because they were indeed struck. I believe that he made a mistake there. I have spoken with a former Denver Mint employee who was there when they were struck, and he told me that employees were allowed to buy them, only to have the Mint recall them the next day. The Mint of course denies this, but they have a habit of lying when it is convenient for them to do so.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do believe that the other legal tender design overstrikes are &quot;imitation numismatic items&quot; as defined by the Hobby Protection Act of 1973 and subsequent revisions, and should be marked with the word &quot;COPY&quot; in accordance with that Act. The FTC is not inclined to bother enforcing the Act, so the question is moot.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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