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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 2175573, member: 4781&quot;]Ok, suppose a &quot;layperson&quot; were to believe that one of my &quot;1964-D&quot; over-strikes is a genuine US Mint issue. Is it not a genuine US Mint Peace Dollar (which has been defaced) ? How would this layperson go about deciding what to pay for it ?</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Face&quot; value ($1) ? Good deal for the layperson</p><p><br /></p><p>Silver content (about $12) ? Good deal for the layperson.</p><p><br /></p><p>Collector value ($ varies) ? See next.</p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS award amount ($10,000) ? How would a layperson know about this award. They must know <i>something</i> about coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you do a Google search for &quot;1964 Peace Dollar&quot;, the first result is eBay listings, which show coins selling in the range of about $5 (Chinese non-silver) up to about $500 (my over-strike).</p><p><br /></p><p>The second result is the PCGS web page which shows my over-strike and states: &quot;... <i>someone recently came out with Fantasy 1964-D Peace dollars by striking them using their own coin press and making them resemble a genuine Mint product.</i>&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The third search result is the PCGS award notice.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fourth search result is the Wikipedia page which shows my over-strike with the caption: &quot;<i>An unofficially produced 1964-D Peace dollar, struck over a genuine silver dollar by a private mint</i>&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fifth search result is my production blog for the &quot;1964-D&quot; and &quot;1965-D&quot; over-strikes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The sixth search result is an article titled &quot;<i>The 1964-D Peace Silver Dollar: Elusive &amp; Illegal to Own</i>&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The seventh search result is a youtube video of a Chinese non-silver non-marked copy.</p><p><br /></p><p>The eighth search result is a Denver Post article about the PCGS award. At least the Denver Post article notes that a genuine coin would be illegal to own.</p><p><br /></p><p>The ninth search result is an article from the &quot;Complete Guide to Peace Silver Dollars&quot;. It shows my over-strike with the notation: &quot;<i>The image which appears at the top of this page is a fantasy overstrike created by Daniel Carr of the Moonlight Mint.&quot;</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>The tenth search result is my original product page.</p><p><br /></p><p>So more than half of the top ten Google search results make note of the existence of my over-strikes. An ordinary reasonable person would do such a search before spending a lot of money on a &quot;1964&quot; Peace Dollar. As with any &quot;investment&quot;, some due diligence is a must. You wouldn&#039;t sink a lot of money into a stock without some research on the company, would you ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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