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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 2573686, member: 4781&quot;]Von NotHaus &quot;Liberty Dollars&quot; looked nothing like any existing coins.</p><p>Even so, as stated, he was convicted by a jury for &quot;counterfeiting&quot;.</p><p>Apparently he did not have a very competent lawyer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many other entities have issued tokens and things with &quot;One Dollar&quot; one them, or other legends in similitude to US coins on them. For example, I&#039;ve never heard of a casino getting in trouble because their metal tokens said &quot;One Dollar&quot; on them. The Smithsonian institution endorsed some privately-minted pieces which looked like a plausible US coin with &quot;United States of America&quot; and &quot;One Hundred Dollars&quot; on them (but not the word &quot;COPY&quot;). Nobody ever got in trouble for that.</p><p><br /></p><p>The difference is that the Liberty Dollar organization attempted to insert their tokens into general commerce to be used as legal tender and to supplant Federal Reserve currency in circulation. Now THAT is something the banking cartel doesn&#039;t like.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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