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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paul M., post: 5285813, member: 73165&quot;]I agree with 100% of this.&nbsp; I have a few Carr creations, and I love them.&nbsp; I even have a few extras I&#039;m going to sell off because they&#039;ve appreciated well beyond issue price plus the cost of an ANACS slab.&nbsp; But, when I mentioned Dan in another, completely separate thread, for a thread-relevant reason, I jokingly referred to him as &quot;He Who Shall Not Be Named.&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>People get way too twisted up about his stuff, to the point where sometimes I want to get a microscope and look at my Carr creations to see if any of them have micro-engravings of Dan insulting them, or something.&nbsp; Seriously, you guys all need to chill and you do you.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>John, based on reading your posts and seeing the coins you share from your collection, anybody can tell you are the furthest thing from ignorant.&nbsp; You&#039;re entitled to your opinion, but [USER=114169]@ZoidMeister[/USER] has it right here:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>See, there&#039;s a reason why Dan uses fantasy dates and publishes <i>exact diagnostics</i> of every single die pair he uses.&nbsp; It&#039;s so that <i>even if</i> somehow in the future someone <i>does</i> come up with, say, an authentic 1964-D Peace dollar, all the information necessary to disambiguate his work from the real ones is right there.</p><p><br /></p><p>IMO, Dan&#039;s stuff is nowhere near dangerous to the hobby, and I&#039;m glad he can make a good living for himself doing what he does.&nbsp; He&#039;s a great technician, by which I mean I love his exact renderings of classic coinage, but I don&#039;t care too much for most of his original stuff.&nbsp; I do like the state quarter reverses he&#039;s done, the coin club medals I&#039;ve seen, and even the North Marianas Islands World Trade Center coin, but his Amero series doesn&#039;t do it for me, and neither do most of his Hard Times tokens.&nbsp; And, truth be told, at some point, I might consider buying a copy of the software he wrote to do this from him and trying to figure out how exactly he renders those classic designs so accurately.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bottom line for me is that his fantasy dated coins are probably less dangerous than the old Gallery Mint stuff, which was marked COPY in accordance with the Hobby Protection Act.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never seen a Dan Carr coin end up slabbed as an authentic coin, as, IIRC, you&#039;ve previously mentioned happened with an altered Gallery Mint large cent.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I would say that in order for something to be a fake, it has to be a fake <i>of </i>something.&nbsp; Since he only makes fantasy dated coins, that&#039;s not a problem.&nbsp; There were zero Flying Eagle small cents made in 1859 to my knowledge.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Go back and take a look at who instigates all the fights and tell me again how much you dislike all the fighting.&nbsp; And, no, just posting a thread is not &quot;instigating.&quot;&nbsp; You might have been able to convince me that that thread posted by that &quot;wise man&quot; was a good idea a few years ago, but I&#039;ve seen too much to fall for that anymore.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hear, hear!&nbsp; Quoted for truth.&nbsp; Love him, hate him, or don&#039;t care about him, anybody on this board is free to post about Dan Carr in any forum where it&#039;s on topic.&nbsp; It&#039;s not like it&#039;s politics or something.&nbsp; If his stuff is so &quot;dangerous&quot; to the hobby, why does he publish all the diagnostics for every single die pair of every overstrike he&#039;s ever done?&nbsp; I just don&#039;t get it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Come on.&nbsp; There&#039;s a world of difference between what comes out of the Shanghai mint and what comes out of the Moonlight Mint.&nbsp; For one, the Chinese typically make fakes of coins that actually exist.&nbsp; For another, they&#039;re typically low quality, badly executed, ugly, and sometimes not even the correct metal.&nbsp; Dan&#039;s stuff is the exact opposite of all of that, <i>and </i>he tells the whole world exactly how to figure out if what they&#039;re looking at is his work or not.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, seriously.</p><p><br /></p><p>Where&#039;s the CT suggestion box, anyway?&nbsp; I&#039;d like to propose that &quot;Dan Carr trolling&quot; be made against the rules.&nbsp; It would solve a lot of problems, and cause a few more problems to solve themselves, IMO.</p><p><br /></p><p>This will probably be my last post in this thread, so, flame on, guys, if that&#039;s what you want to do.&nbsp; I&#039;m out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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