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Message:: [QUOTE="Coinchemistry 2012, post: 2168394, member: 28107"]I much prefer legal definitions and statutes as to lay definitions which don't matter.  Whether the piece is a "counterfeit" or not, in my opinion it is not lawful nor are the dies used to strike them. 18 U.S.C. 487 Whoever, without lawful authority, makes any die, hub, or mold, or any part thereof, either of steel or plaster, or any other substance, in likeness or similitude, as to the design or the inscription thereon, of any die, hub, or mold designated for the coining or making of any of the genuine gold, silver, nickel, bronze, copper, or other coins coined at the mints of the United States; or Whoever, without lawful authority, possesses any such die, hub, or mold, or any part thereof, or permits the same to be used for or in aid of the counterfeiting of any such coins of the United States—Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than fifteen years, or both. 18 U.S.C. 485 Whoever falsely makes, forges, or counterfeits any coin or bar in resemblance or similitude of any coin of a denomination higher than 5 cents or any gold or silver bar coined or stamped at any mint or assay office of the United States, or in resemblance or similitude of any foreign gold or silver coin current in the United States or in actual use and circulation as money within the United States....[/QUOTE]