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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 1146239, member: 11668&quot;]Disney dollars are very obviously not U.S. currency: it very clearly says &quot;Legal Tender Only at Disneyland&quot;.&nbsp; For legal purposes, it has the status of a coupon or gift certificate.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Silver rounds are very obviously not U.S. currency: they lack a denomination.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Liberty Dollars carry a denomination in dollars, and have legends and designs similar to those found on U.S. currency.&nbsp; Some people were spending them without explanation, and some businesses accepted them at face value, only to discover later that the bank wouldn&#039;t take them and the melt value was well below face.&nbsp; Von NotHaus insists that he wasn&#039;t *trying* to deceive anybody, but the jury apparently didn&#039;t buy it.&nbsp; If he&#039;d denominated the rounds in ounces and not in dollars, he&#039;d&#039;ve had no trouble.&nbsp; If he&#039;d kept the &quot;dollars&quot; but left off the &quot;USA&quot; and &quot;Liberty&quot; and such, it&#039;s anybody&#039;s guess how the law would&#039;ve been interpreted.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;m sure nobody who reads this board would confuse a Liberty Dollar with a U.S. coin, but then the general public has never read the Red Book.&nbsp; Plenty of cashiers aren&#039;t sure whether Kennedy halves or $2 bills are real money, and those are the folks who might be fooled by a Liberty Dollar.&nbsp; There was a story a few years ago, when the goverment first sent out a warning about the Liberty Dollars to banks, that a few days later a bank manager called the police to arrest a customer who was depositing a few hundred Ike dollars....&nbsp; That kind of confusion, about what is and is not money, gets in the way of commerce, and it&#039;s what the government is trying to prevent by prosecuting von NotHaus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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