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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 438550, member: 15062&quot;]Well, you bought them unmarked; presumably you could resell them the same way.&nbsp; However, the watchdogs here (myself included) might notify ebay to get the auction pulled.&nbsp; You&#039;re in a grey area; you can legally own them but the Coin Protection Act requires them to be permanently marked as copies if you want to sell them.&nbsp; I suppose you could sell them privately with the understanding that they are counterfeit, but the buyer may eventually become a less ethical than you seller who tries to pass them off as genuine.&nbsp; I proposed in an earlier post that any unmarked counterfeit coins that one comes across should be engraved with the word copy, but I was pretty firmly shot down.&nbsp; It seems that the consensus is that they should be left as they are as &quot;study pieces&quot; and that marking them would destroy their value, as if they had any value beyond the intrinsic value of the metal they were made from.&nbsp; This does not address their future disposition to unknowing buyers.&nbsp; There was a post about a week ago with a link to a site discussing the history of counterfeits and their value to collectors in the past.&nbsp; There are thousands of Chinese counterfeits coming into the country; why add to the confusion?&nbsp; My personal advice - mark them and sell them a copies, unless you need them as hole fillers (still marked).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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