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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Coinchemistry 2012, post: 2133514, member: 28107&quot;]Doug does a good job of outlining my position, except I would take it further and opine that the pieces are unauthorized coins bearing the resemblance of U.S. Coin designs and legends in violation of the counterfeiting statutes I n Title 18, namely 18 USC 485 and 487.&nbsp; Put another way, in my opinion the pieces are worse than replicas.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Are the Chinese counterfeits like the &quot;1798-CC&quot; Trade Dollars and other non-existent dates acceptable merely because the date is odd?&nbsp; And the 1964-D Peace Dollar looks like a genuine example, which was actually struck.&nbsp; PCGS has offered $10,000 to view an authentic piece yet these supposedly don&#039;t exist like 1933 Double Eagles were supposedly all melted.</p><p><br /></p><p>The others cited bear the resemblance to genuine U.S. Coinage.&nbsp; The fantasy over strike process destroys the original design pretty much entirely and stamps new devices and dates.&nbsp; Are these legitimate?&nbsp; If the Chinese starting striking Trade Dollars on contemporaneous Morgan Dollar planchets, would those be okay?&nbsp; What about the 1964 Franklin fantasy piece over struck over a 1964 Kennedy?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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