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<p>[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 2313614, member: 76863"]Anyone who would drop thousands of dollars without looking up any information on an item would soon be scammed by something else. In your hypothetical with a seller like that and a buyer like that converging on each other whether or not Carr's items exist that buyer will be had.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In this case it does not. Coining money would imply that money was being added to the current amount of available currency. Using the peace dollar as an example it was struck on a peace dollar, therefore no additional currency was actually added to the current supply. Its when new currency that shouldn't be there is added to the supply that you are coining money. If anything currency is really just being destroyed in the same way as a penny on a rail road track or melting down junk silver. In the most technical sense though if that was used as a dollar its the exact same amount as before its just that the currencies appearance was altered. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>While its true ignorance of the law will usually not absolve you from being guilty, intent is actually a huge part of the legal system. Numerous laws are written where intent matters. Even when you look at laws for killing someone, the major difference between manslaughter and murder 1 is intent. </p><p><br /></p><p>We can argue all day long what we wish the law was or how we want it to be but the fact is his work is certainly known and no action has been taken. If someone wants to use the NORFED dollars as an example, a Judge ruled that they must be returned back in August.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 2313614, member: 76863"]Anyone who would drop thousands of dollars without looking up any information on an item would soon be scammed by something else. In your hypothetical with a seller like that and a buyer like that converging on each other whether or not Carr's items exist that buyer will be had. In this case it does not. Coining money would imply that money was being added to the current amount of available currency. Using the peace dollar as an example it was struck on a peace dollar, therefore no additional currency was actually added to the current supply. Its when new currency that shouldn't be there is added to the supply that you are coining money. If anything currency is really just being destroyed in the same way as a penny on a rail road track or melting down junk silver. In the most technical sense though if that was used as a dollar its the exact same amount as before its just that the currencies appearance was altered. While its true ignorance of the law will usually not absolve you from being guilty, intent is actually a huge part of the legal system. Numerous laws are written where intent matters. Even when you look at laws for killing someone, the major difference between manslaughter and murder 1 is intent. We can argue all day long what we wish the law was or how we want it to be but the fact is his work is certainly known and no action has been taken. If someone wants to use the NORFED dollars as an example, a Judge ruled that they must be returned back in August.[/QUOTE]
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