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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 450359, member: 15062&quot;]The &quot;Union&quot; is being made and sold by the New York Mint.&nbsp; Here is the ad: <a href="http://www.newyorkmint.net/home/008164.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.newyorkmint.net/home/008164.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.newyorkmint.net/home/008164.aspx</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Nowhere in the ad do they refer to it as a coin, and only in the heading do they say it is a &quot;coin design.&quot;&nbsp; I have seen the TV ad and think they use the same wording.&nbsp; It would seem they have actually sidestepped any controversy or legalities by carefully choosing the words they use.</p><p><br /></p><p>We all know that this isn&#039;t a coin but at least it has some small amount of cachet as a proposed design by George Morgan.&nbsp; Who knows - if the times were right maybe it would actually have been produced by the mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as what you do get, when you look closely it just doesn&#039;t have the crispness of a mint offering.&nbsp; It seems flat and bulky. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q310/bsshog40/2005GeorgeTMorgan1876100UnionObv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q310/bsshog40/2005GeorgeTMorgan1876100UnionRev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>What I find more than a little interesting is that the silver version comes in a bag with the words &quot;Smithsonian Institution&quot; and their logo on the front.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure they had to pay for the use of those devices but it does tend to give unwarrented authenticity to the product.</p><p><br /></p><p>I doubt that the US Mint could copyright the use of the words &quot;United States of America&quot;, &quot;E Pluribus Unum&quot;, &quot;In God We Trust&quot; or &quot;Liberty&quot;, plus a date, but maybe the combination of two or more of those phrases on a &quot;coin-like&quot; device could or should be restricted.</p><p><br /></p><p>---</p><p><br /></p><p>On a different, but vaguely similar subject, a local car dealer had a three day promotion where, if the number on a flyer they sent out matched a number on one of a set of prizes at their dealership, you would win that prize.&nbsp; The prizes were an SUV, a quad-four off road thingey, $7000 in cash or <u>Gold coins worth up to $5000</u>.&nbsp; The fine print said the &quot;Gold coins&quot; were worth from $5 to $500. (?)&nbsp; I went to check out the scam and found that there was only one flyer each for the first three prizes but that there were hundreds of flyers for the &quot;Gold coins&quot;.&nbsp; Of course, I won the &quot;Gold coins&quot; worth &quot;up to $5000&quot; or &quot;$5 to $500&quot;, specifically I won 5 Presidential &quot;Gold&quot; dollars.&nbsp; When I protested that they weren&#039;t gold, but were in fact copper, manganese, nickel and zinc, I was told they look gold and there was no negotiation - take them or leave them.&nbsp; I also asked how to qualify for the &quot;up to $5000&quot; coin or the &quot;... to $500&quot; coin I was told that everyone gets 5 Presidential dollar coins. Period.&nbsp; Rather than take the 5 coins (chump change) I opted to contact the State&#039;s Attorney General&#039;s Office.&nbsp; I want my <u>GOLD</u> coin(s).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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