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Message:: [QUOTE="Jim K, post: 3609762, member: 91282"]I know years ago, itt was illegal to deface a coin. That included drilling a hole and making them into a necklace, or putting them on the railroad tracks to smash them flat. I also know it was a crime that was rarely enforced unless the authorities wanted to arrest someone for something bigger, but could not and used the law for defacing coins, just to get someone off the streets. There are many private mints out there that restrike a coin to make a commemerative or something else collectable. For instance, I have a real Denver mint Peace silver dollar that was restruck with a date of 1964 on the obverse. It was sold as a 1964 Carr Restrike from (I think), the Moonlight mint. One thing I can add, is that if a coin is minted (not a restrike) by a private company, and it resembles a real coin, either new or old, without any counter stamp that says "Copy" or similar, the people making them could face counterfeiting charges. I think theres a lot of greay area to the law, if its still active. Look up the story of the gentleman who ran NORFED and Liberty. I think he is still in jail, yet has not been formally charged or brought to trial on counterfeiting charges.[/QUOTE]