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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 2165419, member: 4781&quot;]You continue with the inflammatory posts that do not provide anything of substance. The implications of your post are based on faulty premises: that there is a &quot;loophole&quot;; that it is being exploited somehow; that doing what I do is somehow &quot;cheating&quot; people.</p><p><br /></p><p>If there is any message that is being sent it is that a person can legally be successful at earning a living from their hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a lot of fun doing what I do, but it is also hard work. Not many people are able to make a living doing what they like. Those that can&#039;t are often jealous of, and attempt to belittle, those who can.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the key quote directly for the US Mint web site:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;(Text as of 2/19/02) 18 U.S.C. §331:</p><p>Whoever <u>fraudulently</u> alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints of the United States, or any foreign coins which are by law made current or are in actual use or circulation as money within the United States; or whoever fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into the United States, any such coin, knowing the same to be altered, defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled or lightened - shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. (Emphasis added.)&quot;</p><p><a href="http://www.usmint.gov/consumer/18USC331.cfm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usmint.gov/consumer/18USC331.cfm" rel="nofollow">http://www.usmint.gov/consumer/18USC331.cfm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Note that the US Mint chose to underline the key word &quot;fraudulently&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is no fraudulent alteration or intent. There is no &quot;loophole&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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