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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Treashunt, post: 242471, member: 6763&quot;]The Mint&#039;s word on the Silver Surfer coins:</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&quot;SILVER SURFER&quot; QUARTERS</p><p><br /></p><p>The United States Mint has learned that 20th Century Fox and The Franklin Mint are promoting the movie, &quot;Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,&quot; by placing a printed image of the &quot;Silver Surfer&quot; character, along with the movie&#039;s web address, on 40,000 California state commemorative quarter-dollar coins, and releasing these coins into circulation. This promotion is in no way approved, authorized, endorsed, or sponsored by the United States Mint, nor is it in any way associated or affiliated with the United States Mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although the United States Mint does not have the authority to enforce Federal criminal laws pertaining to the integrity of U.S. coinage, one such law specifically addresses the use of U.S. coinage for commercial advertising. The relevant statute is 18 U.S.C. § 475, which states the following:</p><p><br /></p><p>18 U.S.C. § 475. Imitating obligations or securities; advertisements.</p><p>Whoever designs, engraves, prints, makes, or executes, or utters, issues, distributes, circulates, or uses any business or professional card, notice, placard, circular, handbill, or advertisement in the likeness or similitude of any obligation or security of the United States issued under or authorized by any Act of Congress or writes, prints, or otherwise impresses upon or attaches to any such instrument, obligation, or security, or any coin of the United States, any business or professional card, notice, or advertisement, or any notice or advertisement whatever, shall be fined under this title.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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