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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2170804, member: 15929&quot;]In concept, those companies are not altering genuine coins but are instead manufacturing .999 fine silver blanks thereby creating new pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note that Daniel Carr refused to consider making a 1965 dated 40% Silver Clad Franklin Half dollar simply because there are no 40% Silver Clad Franklin Half Dollars to alter.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of the work by the Moonlight Mint in regard to &quot;overstrikes&quot; is that the host coin is a genuine US Mint produced coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for comparing the work of the Moonlight Mint to that of known &quot;counterfeiters&quot;, the counterfeiters are creating copies of existing coins/dates/mm for the purpose of &quot;filling holes&quot; in existing coin albums (at least that was the initial intent). It took the ingenuity of the American con artist to start selling these as &quot;authentic&quot; US Made coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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