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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;blsmothermon, post: 988417, member: 26158&quot;]Hobo is correct that the Coinage Act of 1965 established currency status for all coins and paper produced in the United States under US governmental autorization. This means that all coins ever produced by the US Mint are currency at face value, and this is generally believed to include the Trade Dollar. It also grants the same status to paper produced by individual banks so long as it was done under the auspices of the Federal Government. Thus, there is no US currency that is truly &quot;obsolete&quot;. Now, on the question why no one does anything about it, I would guess that since there are no trade dollars in circulation, they consider it a problem of the hobby not the currency. It doesn&#039;t really make sense, because if you photocopy a dollar bill and have it in your house and get busted, it is no different than if you tried to spend it. They consider all of it counterfieting, but apparently choose to overlook this problem.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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