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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3946923, member: 66&quot;]Can&#039;t buy they right because other than the Sac dollar no US coin design is copyrighted.</p><p><br /></p><p>To a large extent it really depends on what the government says is&nbsp; counterfeit.&nbsp; Technically under the law a LOT of the generic rounds on the market could be considered counterfeits.</p><p><br /></p><p>Title 18 section 489 could conceivably be interpreted to make any round that has a device that looks&nbsp; anything like a device used on a US or foreign coin could be considered illegal.&nbsp; Not in the law it could be considered illegal if it was just the same COLOR or used the inscriptions.&nbsp; Just putting United states of america on it could make it illegal (if it isn&#039;t marked copy)</p><p><br /></p><p>Whoever, within the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/489" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/489" rel="nofollow">United States</a>, makes or brings therein from any foreign country, or possesses with intent to sell, give away, or in any other manner uses the same, except under authority of the Secretary of the Treasury or other proper officer of the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/489" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/489" rel="nofollow">United States</a>, any token, disk, or<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/489" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/489" rel="nofollow"> device </a>in the likeness or similitude as to design, color, or the inscription thereon of any of the coins of the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/489" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/489" rel="nofollow">United States</a> or of any foreign country issued as<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/489" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/489" rel="nofollow"> money,</a> either under the authority of the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/489" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/489" rel="nofollow">United States</a> or under the authority of any <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/489" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/489" rel="nofollow">foreign government</a> shall be fined under this title.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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