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Message:: [QUOTE="chip, post: 732923, member: 19122"]some answers to your one question,  the purpose of making a copy is to allow collectors to have an affordable example of a rarity that otherwise they would not be able to have in their collection, the reason for it being stamped is so that unwary collectors would not pay the same money for the copy that they would for the original, basically IF the law was followed and enforced the coin market would be safer for investors and collectors. and finally, as to why a collector would want a "worthless" copy of an original coin, it is because sometimes the art, the execution, and other variables make the copy desirable, you love the colonial curency, but you cannot afford the Janus cent, but you buy a copy to have a hard example of it, that does not make them always exactly worthless, most confederate coinage was restruck long after the event, as was the 1804 silver dollar, which had not been struck in the year of issue, so technically, the 1804 silver dollar which is worth millions is a fantasy piece, and a sort of copy of other coins except it was done at the behest of the pols of those days.[/QUOTE]