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Message:: [QUOTE="19Lyds, post: 1555130, member: 15929"]Back in the day when coins were first produced, the United States Government "guaranteed" the assay of the metal content of the coins which they produced. Remember, literally ANYBODY could make a coin out of bullion which they had mined BUT only the US Government guaranteed that the coin was what the coin said it was. So. Since Daniel Carr is using authentic US Coins, backed by the US Government as bonafide, his base metals are not counterfeit AND the images he places on the overstruck coin is considered an "alteration" (abberation by some and a downright travesty by others) to make the parent coin look like a coin which was never produced (or released) by the United States Government. It's metallic content (unlike true counterfeits which may or may not contain silver, gold, copper, or platinum) is correct. Folks either like them or they hate them but, this is not the first time that collectible coins have been produced outside the US Mint. As such, I expect that poeces produced by the Moonlight Mint will have as much collector status as those previously produced overstrikes.[/QUOTE]