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Message:: [QUOTE="dcarr, post: 2176577, member: 4781"]You wrote that my over-strikes were "robbing the legacy" of the original designers. I pointed out that you never wrote anything criticizing the carving of "hobo" nickels, which often involves the alteration of the portrait that Fraser designed. And that alteration sometimes has the appearance of a Caucasian rather than the Native American as original. My statement is that I personally like carved "hobo" nickels, but that practice is far more disrespectful to the original designer than any over-strike which keeps the design the same as it was. In a previous post, about a 1905 Indian Head cent that was "hobo" carved to look like a cartoon character, you said it was "well done". What about "robbing the legacy" of the designer James Longacre on that one ? <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1905-%E2%80%9Cwho-is-this-indian%E2%80%9D-cent.223874/#post-1656529" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1905-%E2%80%9Cwho-is-this-indian%E2%80%9D-cent.223874/#post-1656529">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1905-%E2%80%9Cwho-is-this-indian%E2%80%9D-cent.223874/#post-1656529</a> <img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/1905-funny-penny-640x480-jpg.242921/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]