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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2465711, member: 15929&quot;]Probably because there wouldn&#039;t be any profit in it at all!</p><p><br /></p><p>Folks who have &quot;difficulties with Daniel Carr&#039;s work obviously have not examined it very closely. While some tout it as amazing artistry all I really see is &quot;rounded lettering&quot; which has never been a mark of quality for the US Mint. US Mint coins have square definition and in some cases, like the MORGAN Dollars and other silver coins, look as if each device was manually glued to the surface of the coin. The definition between device and field darn near looks fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve purchased quite a few of the products from the moonlight mint and IMO, each has the exact same characteristic &quot;rounded&quot; letters.</p><p><br /></p><p>By &quot;rounded&quot;, I&#039;m referring to the top of the device which, if a cross section were made, would look like the lower graphic:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]517676[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Every overstrike that he creates looks like the above not to mention the obvious remnants of the original coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]517677[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]517678[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]517679[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>To me, even an untrained eye can see this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, the argument exists that &quot;novices&quot; will get ripped off since &quot;COPY&quot; isn&#039;t present on the coin.&nbsp; I need not remind folks of how many of those oversized metal coasters are sold as US Mint errors or the number of &quot;fools&quot; that bought into World Monetary Reserve&#039;s Ballistic Roll Scam which fleeced thousands of folks to get their 50 Coin roll of Washington &quot;Golden&quot; Dollars for free! All that was required was paying the $124 Vault Release Fee!</p><p><br /></p><p>The point being, it&#039;s is difficult to protect stupid from him or herself.</p><p><br /></p><p>None of the above reflect badly upon the Numismatic Community which is fully aware of the Moonlight Mint Overstrikes which ave been thoroughly documented on the Internet. All it takes is a few very simple key strokes.</p><p><br /></p><p>BUT, if folks did that then the &quot;Con Men&quot; of the world would go out of business. Think the current Telephone IRS Scam or perhaps the Nigerian eMail Scam. Both work quite effectively against folks who are dumb but they don&#039;t even know they are dumb.</p><p><br /></p><p>To a numismatist that invests thousands of dollars into their collection for the appreciation of the coins, the Moonlight Mint offers no credible threat and as such, will have no effect on coin collecting. The &quot;get rich quick&quot; folks might stub their toes but again, these people aren&#039;t coin collectors. They&#039;re profiteers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thats my Opinion and I&#039;m sticking to it.</p><p><br /></p><p>As stated earlier, these are produced as novelties and will always remain novelties. Kinda like the currently recognized ans unauthorized over strikes and restrikes that exist in the Numismatic World toady which are fully recognized by the Top TPG&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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