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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 2165909, member: 4781&quot;]&quot;thou doth protest too much&quot; ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Several reasons have been given. You chose to ignore them. We are talking about a genuine coin which has been defaced or altered so as to have characteristics that none of the original type have. The over-strikes are not a copy of the coin type - they are a defacement of the coin type. The over-strikes are not a copy of any specific issue because the apparent date on them was never issued for that type.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a type collection of my own fantasy-date over-strike coins. I didn&#039;t want &quot;COPY&quot; on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since the vast majority of US coin designs were paid for with tax dollars, by law they are public domain and can not be copyrighted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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