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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 2157568, member: 4781&quot;]If some Chinese person or company over-struck US coins to put an obvious date on them that was never originally issued for that type, and they marketed them as &quot;fantasy-date over-strikes&quot;, then those would be &quot;defaced&quot; coins, not &quot;counterfeit&quot; coins. If you took a genuine US Mint 1999 Lincoln cent and carved off parts of the date to make it look like &quot;1900&quot;, is that a &quot;counterfeit&quot; ? No. Because 1900 Lincoln cents were never issued, and because it is a genuine US Mint Lincoln cent that has been &quot;defaced&quot; or &quot;altered&quot;. But if you knowingly tried to sell that &quot;1900&quot; Lincoln cent as a genuine original to some hypothetical uneducated buyer for a lot of money, that would constitute fraud.</p><p><br /></p><p>But supposing that some Chinese maker did start producing fantasy-date over-struck coins, they wouldn&#039;t necessary sell for much of a premium. Why does the work of one artist sell for high prices, while the work of another is ignored ? There are a lot of factors, not the least of which is the artists&#039; work history, notoriety, and following.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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