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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 2172712, member: 4781&quot;]My position is not quite what you state here.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do not claim any legal-tender status for my over-strikes. Nor do I advocate that anyone attempt to used them in that manner.</p><p><br /></p><p>The threshold of how much defacement a coin can have before it is no longer legal tender is not known.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the point of view of currency counterfeiting, there is a difference between striking a realistic-looking half dollar on an anonymous piece of metal compared to over-striking on a legal-tender half dollar. In the latter case, the item started out as legal tender and the apparent face value is not changed by the over-strike (and no metal is added or removed and there is no heating or melting).</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Falsely make&quot;&nbsp; does not apply to the defacement of existing coins for non-fraudulent purposes. It speaks to the manufacture of outright currency counterfeits.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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