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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 439794, member: 15062&quot;]I&#039;m not saying that we should knock on doors and force anyone to mark their coins.&nbsp; I am saying that the moral thing we should do with <u>our own</u> fake coins is to mark them as fakes.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It never is &quot;what it once was&quot;.&nbsp; You wouldn&#039;t be altering a coin; you&#039;d be adding a mark to a simple metal disk that has a reproduction of a coin&#039;s design on it.&nbsp; A fake Rolex watch never was a Rolex watch.&nbsp; A fake Morgan was never a Morgan, any more than a photograph of one is.&nbsp; Its only monetary value is the value of the metal it is made of.&nbsp; Marking it as a copy doesn&#039;t reduce that value.&nbsp; If you assign a &quot;value&quot; to it as a teaching aid, then the &quot;copy&quot; mark doesn&#039;t detract from its educational value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Need I ask again; how do we today assure that sellers in future generations won&#039;t defraud buyers by selling our fake coins, knowingly or unknowingly, when a very simple action would prevent that scenario?&nbsp; A simple notation on a holder simply won&#039;t do it.&nbsp; Quoting laws doesn&#039;t impress me; I&#039;m talking about personal morals and ethics.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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