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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3111873, member: 112&quot;]The legal definition of a coin is rather simple:</p><p><i>COIN -A piece of gold, silver or other metal stamped by authority of the government, in order to determine its value, commonly called money.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>As I said, it&#039;s rather simple but it says a lot. For our purposes, the primary requirement is found in the &quot;in order to determine its value&quot; portion of the definition. What that means is that in order to even be a coin its value must be identifiable. It must also be identifiable as having been issued by the govt. And it must be capable of being recognized by sight as money. </p><p><br /></p><p>The item in this thread meets none of those requirements, not one.</p><p><br /></p><p>My personal definition of a coin is even simpler. Since a coin is money, you must be able to spend it, otherwise it is not a coin. And the item in this thread most definitely does not meet that definition either. And neither do any of the other items I listed in my previous post.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for your assertation that it was released into circulation and thus it is a coin, doesn&#039;t hold water. It was released by mistake, if the mint had caught it, it never would have been released - as a coin. Thus it is not a coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now you and others obviously disagree but that&#039;s because you consciously choose to use your own definitions rather than those defined by law and accepted as such because it suits your purposes to do so.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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