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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Prestoninanus, post: 987847, member: 20205&quot;]@mmarota, as I said <u>&#039;I could be wrong&#039;</u> America is not my native country, so I said what I said with a qualifier. I wasn&#039;t sure of the legal tender status of the trade dollar, so I qualified that comment as well. Apparently it is legal tender again (which I wasn&#039;t aware about), having previously been demonetised (which I was right about).</p><p>&nbsp;In any case, I think I am still right about it being subject to different legislation if its non-legal tender status had still been in effect.</p><p>&nbsp;In Britain, counterfeit money is strictly defined in legal terms as an imitation of legal tender currency, whether foreign or domestic. Fakes of historic non-legal tender coins are not classed as &#039;counterfeit money&#039; and is unlike legal tender currency, not illegal as such, but would fall under different anti-fraud legislation if someone attempted to sell or profit from them by pretending that they are something they are not. </p><p>I don&#039;t know what the US law is on this issue, but I would have thought that selling say, a fake Roman sestertius would be covered by different legislation (such as the Hobby Protection Act in the case of the US) compared to a legal tender Morgan, which would presumably be subject to different anti-counterfeit legislation, which probably prescribes significantly harsher penalties for a crime which has historically been seen as equivalent to treason in may parts of the world....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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