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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 26545531, member: 104064&quot;]I just noticed something else in the law - it only applies to counterfeits manufactured after Nov. 29, 1973, the date the hobby protection act was enacted.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title15-chapter48&amp;edition=prelim" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title15-chapter48&amp;edition=prelim" rel="nofollow">https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-chapter48&amp;edition=prelim</a></p><p>&quot;<a href="https://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=87&amp;page=687" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=87&amp;page=687" rel="nofollow">Pub. L. 93–167, §8, Nov. 29, 1973, 87 Stat. 687</a>, provided that: &quot;This Act [enacting this chapter] shall apply only to imitation political items and imitation numismatic items manufactured after the date of enactment of this Act [Nov. 29, 1973].&quot; &quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>In my other search results on &quot;us hobby protection act&quot; I didn&#039;t see this caveat. The implication is that contemporary counterfeits such as my 1861 dime are not subject to this act, which I think is good. I don&#039;t have to stamp COPY on it, and I think I could even knowingly sell it as real (although worth more as a fake). The bad implication is also that a ton of counterfeit gold manufactured in the 1960s is not covered by the act. Another problem is - how can someone prove that the Chinese junk flooding the market was manufactured after 1973? Of course that&#039;s easy for anything that didn&#039;t exist before 1973, but what about the rest of it? Other fakes have also been around for a long time, like 1909-S VDBs and fake 1955 DDOs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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