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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dman, post: 450389, member: 15645&quot;]What is a legitimate government? The United States for example, decided that the Confederacy was quite illegitimate and illegal. Would I be barred from selling my &quot;confederate coins?&quot; What about countries that the US does not recognize? If I want to sell a Palestinian coin, something that is legal tender within that territory, I can&#039;t call it a coin because, to the U.S. it is &quot;illegitimate&quot;? Plus, you&#039;re implying coin means money... Since when? I remember buying chocolate &quot;coins&quot; when I was a kid. I never heard of anyone believing they were real money, they were candy with a clever marketing idea. I&#039;ve read recipies that tell me I should cut my cucumbers into &quot;coins.&quot; Again, no implication of monetary value. The word &quot;coin&quot; is also used in architecture to mean the cornerstone of a building. Etc. My point is, just because, to you, the word &quot;coin&quot; means &quot;a metallic disc issued as legal tender by a legitimate government&quot; doesn&#039;t mean that&#039;s the definition of the word to the common man. As a coin collector, your argument makes sense. But coins weren&#039;t created FOR the coin collector, they were created for the common man.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But even so, what ever happened to that old phrase I was taught as a small child: Let the buyer beware?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Let&#039;s just use common sense. The silver version of that coin sells for $99... so they&#039;re selling me a $100 coin for $99... if you&#039;re dumb enough to fall for that, you&#039;re going to buy it whether they call it a medallion, a token, or Super Fake Fun Money. Sometimes, people just need common sense.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Their website clearly states, &quot;New York Mint is not affiliated with the U.S. Government.&quot; If you switch to the specifications tab it even says &quot;Denomination: 100 Dollars - Not Legal Tender&quot; How much clearer do you want it to be? </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Some people are just dumb. I&#039;ve seen people posting bad feedback on ebay for buying a &quot;coin&quot; that was clearly marked as &quot;REPRODUCTION&quot; and stamped with &quot;COPY&quot; then complaining that it was a fake, all the while not at all wondering why they were getting a hundred year old, $20 gold coin for $10... No matter how much you want to protect people from themselves, at the end of the day, you have to use your own brain instead of relying on someone elses.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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