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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 820030, member: 19463&quot;]A fair and honest question:&nbsp; What is a &#039;real coin&#039;?&nbsp; In Liberian dollars, 10LRD equals about 14 US cents but striking costs for some of these items guarantees that their only purpose was sale to collectors/tourists (or can you even buy them in Liberia?).&nbsp; If a country licenses production of things called coins that never have or will circulate in any form, are they actually coins?&nbsp; This is a trick question.&nbsp; Consider US mint items that similarly lack a circulating form.&nbsp; There was a time when we complained that the mint was charging us $2.10 for $.91 worth of proof coins but at least they were coins and could be spent for $.91 if times got rough and the protective packaging was worth something.&nbsp; I&#039;ll accept proofs at an advance over face as &#039;real&#039; but when we started selling designs only for collectors at an advance many times over &#039;face&#039; (even if technically you could spend them in the mint gift shop) we have to allow the question: What is a &#039;real coin&#039;?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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