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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tonedcoins, post: 1286954, member: 25155&quot;]I see everyone bringing &quot;laws&quot; into account for everything said. I personally &quot;have to&quot; follow laws that my profession and job requires. However, they are laws needed to keep the peace per say. That said, the laws regarding numismatics, is different but I wouldn&#039;t always abide by them when it comes to such things as &quot;A seller in China can legally make reproducing Chinese coins made before 1949 (<i>before the People&#039;s Republic of China</i>) perfectly legal&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me and IMO, it is not &quot;ALL&quot; about laws. It is mostly based in the hobby and what it represents. Look, coin collecting is about the study of metals. The study of metals such as &quot;coins&quot; in this case. Coins are studied for many reasons. I personally study and collect them for their historical, beauty, natural colors and for knowledge of that period. A coin (metal, when authentic) has a meaning to collectors to where it takes them (me) back in time and appreciate the historical purpose of our or other countries purpose in creating them.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">So with that said, a &quot;LAW&quot; does not and shouldn&#039;t come into play when people are reproducing, lying about the coins and in general scamming others for a simple buck. To me, it should all be stopped, one way or another. Everyone should keep the honest, HONEST!</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">I specialize mostly on &quot;Toned Coins&quot; and I ask myself, &quot;don&#039;t we have enough issues, problems, and scammers when it comes to this&quot;? Yes, but we still have the Chinese supporters who keep buying this junk. So what exactly is the point of &quot;coin collecting&quot;? Now, just imagine what a newbie/s think when they read about this?</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">At this time, me writing this, I am enjoying a nice bowl of Chinese white rice with spicy, sweet and sour chicken stir fry with broccoli lomein noodles. There is no LAW for this and I don&#039;t see a problem with this because there is no way to scam or sell it as is to anyone else because EVERYONE knows what the heck it is. </span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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