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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Juan Blanco, post: 1589507, member: 41665&quot;]What is this coin, or rather... is it what I think it is? Hmm.</p><p><br /></p><p>From their website:</p><p>[ATTACH]221366.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Now it&#039;s no big secret that Sunshine Minting was COINING the Norfed Rounds/Dollars. But given Sunshine Minting&#039;s very significant relationship to the US Mint, this detail <i>prominently posted on their website </i>is very surprising to me. Isn&#039;t that abit like a licensed pharmaceutical company selling serious drugs on the side, to street-dealers? And brazenly advertising that, after a scandalous event? And that imbroglio didn&#039;t jeopardize the US Mint contract for all those AGE and ASE planchets they&#039;re supposedly still making for Uncle Sam??!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m baffled by this: Sunshine Minting made the &quot;illegal&quot; Norfed coins, obviously. Did von NotHaus work <i>for/with </i>Sunshine, as a DBA? Did they cop a plea in the investigation (&quot;We&#039;ll book whatever foreign planchets you want to call US product, chief!&quot;) ... or, where&#039;s the loophole here? </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.fbi.gov/charlotte/press-releases/2011/defendant-convicted-of-minting-his-own-currency" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.fbi.gov/charlotte/press-releases/2011/defendant-convicted-of-minting-his-own-currency" rel="nofollow">http://www.fbi.gov/charlotte/press-releases/2011/defendant-convicted-of-minting-his-own-currency</a></p><p>&gt;&gt;3/18/2011: STATESVILLE, NC—<b>Bernard von NotHaus, 67, was convicted today by a federal jury of making, possessing, and selling his own coins</b>, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Following an eight-day trial and less than two hours of deliberation, von NotHaus, the founder and monetary architect of a currency known as the Liberty Dollar, was found guilty by a jury in Statesville, North Carolina, of making coins resembling and similar to United States coins; of issuing, passing, selling, and possessing Liberty Dollar coins; of issuing and passing Liberty Dollar coins intended for use as current money; and of conspiracy against the United States. The guilty verdict concluded an investigation which began in 2005 and involved the minting of Liberty Dollar coins with a current value of approximately $7 million.&lt;&lt;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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