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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Coinchemistry 2012, post: 2178434, member: 28107&quot;]The 1964-D Peace Dollar is targeted for good reason.&nbsp; His argument about using non-existent dates goes out of the window for those.&nbsp; Whether they still exist is questionable, but even if they don&#039;t, then the statute still applies.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also do not agree with your conclusion that the genuine ones are &quot;unambiguously illegal.&quot;&nbsp; To be sure, the government may seize them and might very well be correct in doing so, but there is no guarantee that it will be upheld in court.&nbsp; If a Mint employee can prove that the piece was purchased lawfully (and per Hernandez, PCGS Board of Experts member who wrote the article I linked to before states that this happened legally), then the government has no forfeiture or seizure claim under the only statutes that allows it to seize property.&nbsp; So I would argue that the legal status is ambiguous at best.&nbsp; Illegal?&nbsp; Quite possibly, but there is also a chance that it&nbsp; might be declared legal (none of which would matter anyway under the plain meaning of the statutory schemes discussed).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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