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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mmablaster, post: 1522214, member: 39889&quot;]Technically, it isn&#039;t counterfeiting because he didn&#039;t actually replicate existing currency.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure why they didn&#039;t indicate the verdict in the story above.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">&quot;Bernard von NotHaus, 67, was convicted Friday by a federal jury of making, possessing and selling his own coins, said Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">After an eight-day trial and less than two hours of deliberation, von NotHaus, the founder and &quot;monetary architect&quot; of a currency known as the Liberty Dollar, was found guilty of making coins resembling and similar to United States coins; of issuing, passing, selling and possessing Liberty Dollar coins; of issuing and passing Liberty Dollar coins intended for use as current money; and of conspiracy against the United States.&quot;</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><a href="http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/mar/19/local-liberty-dollar-architect-found-guilty/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/mar/19/local-liberty-dollar-architect-found-guilty/" rel="nofollow">http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/mar/19/local-liberty-dollar-architect-found-guilty/</a></font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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