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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 1335025, member: 4781&quot;]Greetings everyone.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many good comments posted here so far.</p><p><br /></p><p>The most important distinction regarding these tokens is that they are never purported to be legal tender.&nbsp;&nbsp; I make it quite clear in my marketing of them that they are not legal tender and no attempts to use them as such should be made.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Liberty Dollar organization actively promoted their &quot;Dollars&quot; as a type of legal tender, and they had plans to promote them on a large scale.&nbsp;&nbsp; The &quot;Feds&quot; will come down on anybody attempting that.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;$ 1000&quot; inscription on the tokens is a symbolic price (like a suggested retail price).&nbsp;&nbsp; I engraved the dies back when palladium was higher (over $800).</p><p><br /></p><p>There are some precedents for artistic mimicking of currency.&nbsp;&nbsp; The artist known as &quot;Boggs&quot; would draw life-like images of US currency and then try to &quot;spend&quot; them at face value.&nbsp;&nbsp; He would state up-front that the note was a drawing and a hand-made piece of &quot;art&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Sometimes the other party would take the note, other times not (the ones who took the notes and kept them have done well - they sell to collectors for high prices much of the time).&nbsp;&nbsp; The &quot;Feds&quot; did eventually confiscate some of Boggs&#039; bills (the ones that were very close in appearance to US notes).&nbsp;&nbsp; But that was the extent of the Feds&#039; action.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Feds seem to be a lot more touchy regarding paper currency than they are coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; Note that Boggs has been incarcerated, but that was due to some sort of drug conviction, so I&#039;m told.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS:</p><p>Palladium coins and bars tend to have a fairly substantial mark-up above the &quot;melt&quot; value.&nbsp;&nbsp; After working with palladium some, I can see why.&nbsp;&nbsp; Palladium is not a hard metal, but the melting point is extremely high and it is just generally difficult to work with compared to copper, silver, and gold.</p><p>So far, these coins have not been big sellers.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve minted 22 so far, and I have 29 more blanks ready.&nbsp;&nbsp; So the final mintage will be 51, not 55.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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