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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1299491, member: 19065&quot;]<b></b></p><p><b>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Congrats dwhiz!</b> I like the Morgan you got from Mr. Carr, you did a nice job photographing it too. DC is very adept and&nbsp; skilled at providing collectors of a certain kind, a product that is&nbsp; tastefully handled and unique in the field of numismatics, in that he&nbsp; maintains design accuracy while protecting the consumer from fraud and&nbsp; maintains a coins spec weight and dimensions by using only original&nbsp; quality examples of these pieces. Counterfeiters rarely ever mint a&nbsp; fake piece to actual spec with such precision. Some may, but then they will also seek to deceive the buyer thereafter, thus a true counterfeit of ill gotten intent. That is <u>not</u> what DC creates. Were he, he&#039;d not be a free person in possession of of such tools. </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; DC has a strong body&nbsp; of personal coin design work and a growing segment of that now pays homage to some of the&nbsp; United States&#039; most beloved coin designs.&nbsp; Personally, of all of Carr&#039;s&nbsp; work, I wouldn&#039;t seek one of these Morgan&#039;s for my collection because I&nbsp; collect other things. I have other examples of his work, both fantasy&nbsp; and original designs and I appreciate them equally. It&#039;s really neat&nbsp; to compare DC&#039;s fantasy coins next to unaltered originals to see how tight his work really is. I respect DC and his effort to inform the public, much much more than I respect&nbsp; the hecklers who parade about these forums firing uninformed quips to&nbsp; fill their time and misinform those who fall upon such trite commentary.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>And plenty of CT threads on this forum alone&nbsp; attest to this debate, yet DC has yet to convicted of counterfeiting for illegal gain. </p><p><br /></p><p>They are very nice fantasy pieces indeed.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; @cpm9ball</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; I agree with only one thing you&#039;ve stated, <u>that Mr. Carr is talented.</u> The rest of your comment fails to carry any weight on either&nbsp; point: one arguing that you &quot;wish he would start directing his talents&nbsp; toward original designs of his own&quot;. Well, I guess I get to break it to you,&nbsp; but he does that already. Perhaps you should <a href="http://www.dc-coin.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.dc-coin.com/" rel="nofollow">visit his web site </a>and&nbsp; educate yourself because the majority of his work, is of pieces of his&nbsp; own design, &quot;rather than provide inspiration for counterfeiters&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now&nbsp; that last half of your comment shows how completely you misunderstand&nbsp; what a &#039;counterfeiter&#039; is doing with their ill-gotten trade. The fact that&nbsp; the numismatic market is profitable and people are easily deceived and&nbsp; relieved of their money, is more inspiration for counterfeiting than one&nbsp; man with a legitimate coining operation, on the books with one of the&nbsp; biggest Mint&#039;s in the world, who has never been convicted of nor&nbsp; attempted to pass his work through deceptive means for illicit gain. In&nbsp; fact he goes out of his way to inform people that these are fantasy&nbsp; pieces, changes the design enough to indicate the design isn&#039;t original&nbsp; and discusses his work openly.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; The Coin Show, by Matt Mike and Carlton, interviewed Mr. Carr on <a href="http://www.coinshowradio.com/Episode_14.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinshowradio.com/Episode_14.html" rel="nofollow"><b>Episode&nbsp; 14</b></a>, perhaps you and others should go listen to it (again).&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.coinshowradio.com/Episode_14.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinshowradio.com/Episode_14.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinshowradio.com/Episode_14.html</a></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; @ratio411</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>Good grief! It&#039;s narrow-minded xenophobic ill-informed comments like this that serve&nbsp; more to confuse rather than understand counterfeit vs. fantasy coins.&nbsp; If you feel DC&#039;s a counterfeiter then why don&#039;t you report it to the&nbsp; Secret Service. I doubt you will get very far. DC is open about his&nbsp; operation and his intent, which is <u>not</u> to deceive anyone nor any&nbsp; collector with his creations. Mr. Carr hasn&#039;t been convicted of&nbsp; counterfeiting and your statement is flat wrong to call him one by&nbsp; opinion alone. Sadly, your retort only stands to show how uninformed you and&nbsp; your biases are, particularly of a respected coin designer and towards a group&nbsp; of people currently pegged only for counterfeiting activity.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; @ BUncirculated:</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Explain why you think it&#039;s a counterfeit. It&#039;s not enough to voice that&nbsp; opinion when overwhelming legal support proves you and the rest of those misinformed&nbsp; agreement with you dead wrong.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; @milty456</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Too much history in a coin to destroy it? How many Morgans were minted&nbsp; for cryin&#039; out loud! </p><p><br /></p><p>How many scads upon scads of Morgans do you need&nbsp; to retain a coin&#039;s history? How much history is enough history when&nbsp; you can buy them in quantity from bullion value on up to the high end numismatic&nbsp; collectibles we hold so dear. <u><i>IF</i></u> Morgan dollars were so darned scarce as&nbsp; to be of a concern as you have suggested their history being at stake, I highly doubt Mr. Carr&#039;s&nbsp; expense to acquire examples to create his fantasy versions would be&nbsp; worth taking the time to bring down a &#039;piece of history&#039; to mere bullion value.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; @tonedcoins</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <i>&quot;I too would love for Carr to create his own designs and I personally would buy more.&quot;</i></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; And just like Chris (cpm9ball) you too should <a href="http://www.dc-coin.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.dc-coin.com/" rel="nofollow">visit Mr. Carr&#039;s web site </a> to appraise yourself of the vast <u>majority</u> of his work that is of his own&nbsp; design… I&#039;m sure DC will be pleased to process your generous order but you can only buy as much as he has left, because a lot of more&nbsp; informed collectors of Carr&#039;s work have quickly snapped up his personal&nbsp; work as it has become available over the years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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