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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 2169491, member: 4781&quot;]The statutes are conflicting. As I said previously, if the Title 18 statutes are the only consideration, then EVERY maker of EVERY replica US coin is in violation, even if they were stamped &quot;COPY&quot;. But not a single one has ever been charged with such a violation (neither before nor after the HPA enactment), as far as I know. Of course, the Title 18 statutes were enacted at a time when coin collecting was not a consideration. The purpose of Title 18 was to protect the legal-tender circulating coinage base. It wasn&#039;t until much later when the HPA was enacted that coin collecting was addressed. At that time Congress could have banned all replicas of any US coins (which is the case in Canada for Canadian coins). But instead, Congress decided to allow the manufacture of replicas (using molds and dies), with the caveat that if the item was a replica of an &quot;original numismatic item&quot;, then the replica itself (but not necessarily the dies) be marked &quot;COPY&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>If a &quot;hobo&quot; nickel carver were to exactly re-engrave ALL the details on a Buffalo nickel while changing the date to &quot;1939&quot;, what would that constitute ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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