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<p>[QUOTE="KBBPLL, post: 24597943, member: 104064"]Yes, the law states either the obverse or the reverse. <a href="https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-304" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-304" rel="nofollow">https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-304</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Even the "legal" ones I've seen to not conform to the size requirements though, particularly the bold part below:</p><p><br /></p><p>An imitation numismatic item of incusable material shall be incused with the word “COPY” in sans-serif letters having a vertical dimension of not less than two millimeters (2.0 mm) or not less than one-sixth of the diameter of the reproduction, and a minimum depth of three-tenths of one millimeter (0.3 mm) or to one-half (1⁄2) the thickness of the reproduction, whichever is the lesser. The minimum total horizontal dimension of the word “COPY” shall be six millimeters (6.0 mm) or <b>not less than one-half of the diameter of the reproduction</b>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="KBBPLL, post: 24597943, member: 104064"]Yes, the law states either the obverse or the reverse. [URL]https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-304[/URL] Even the "legal" ones I've seen to not conform to the size requirements though, particularly the bold part below: An imitation numismatic item of incusable material shall be incused with the word “COPY” in sans-serif letters having a vertical dimension of not less than two millimeters (2.0 mm) or not less than one-sixth of the diameter of the reproduction, and a minimum depth of three-tenths of one millimeter (0.3 mm) or to one-half (1⁄2) the thickness of the reproduction, whichever is the lesser. The minimum total horizontal dimension of the word “COPY” shall be six millimeters (6.0 mm) or [B]not less than one-half of the diameter of the reproduction[/B].[/QUOTE]
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