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<p>[QUOTE="dcarr, post: 2164929, member: 4781"]You grossly underestimate (ignore) the amount of encouragement that I receive from the "numismatic community". Some of the top numismatists alive today have acquired my over-struck specimens for their collections; people are constantly asking me when the next one will come out and what it will be; I was asked by the Society of Silver Dollar Collectors to write an article about my "1964-D" Peace dollar over-striking project, which I did, and that article received the "A. George Mallis Literary Award"; my "1964-D" and "1975" over-strike dollars are listed in the Krause "Unusual World Coins" catalog (6th edition, which is a few years old now); ANACS will certify anything that I produce. Those are a few examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>You are free to dislike the fantasy-date over-struck coins. You are also free to dislike the people that collect them. Fortunately, however, every collector gets to make up their own mind as to what they desire to collect.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dcarr, post: 2164929, member: 4781"]You grossly underestimate (ignore) the amount of encouragement that I receive from the "numismatic community". Some of the top numismatists alive today have acquired my over-struck specimens for their collections; people are constantly asking me when the next one will come out and what it will be; I was asked by the Society of Silver Dollar Collectors to write an article about my "1964-D" Peace dollar over-striking project, which I did, and that article received the "A. George Mallis Literary Award"; my "1964-D" and "1975" over-strike dollars are listed in the Krause "Unusual World Coins" catalog (6th edition, which is a few years old now); ANACS will certify anything that I produce. Those are a few examples. You are free to dislike the fantasy-date over-struck coins. You are also free to dislike the people that collect them. Fortunately, however, every collector gets to make up their own mind as to what they desire to collect.[/QUOTE]
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