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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CamaroDMD, post: 1264894, member: 5233&quot;]I do agree that this makes the situation somewhat challenging.&nbsp; I think if I was the station manager, I would probably just accept the change (as they did) if no other method of payment was possible.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think it would be worth the trouble of enforcing their legal right to require accepting another form.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, I will try and steer this topic back on track because I certainly helped get it here.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You can report it to your local authorities if you want but I doubt anything will come out of it.&nbsp; It is legal to alter coins in this manner as long as it&#039;s not being done to commit fraud.&nbsp; What I&#039;m sure you have found is common date coins that appear to have their marks removed...resulting in a common date coin.&nbsp; Then, the coin is being spent.&nbsp; It is odd, but there is no crime there per se.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, why is the person doing this?&nbsp; Who knows.&nbsp; It could be as simple as someone practicing carving...as if they are making hobo nickels.&nbsp; But, it could also be someone harvesting mint marks off coins to add them to other coins.&nbsp; You take a D off a common date cent and stick it on a 1914...and suddenly you have a nice fake (which obviously is illegal).&nbsp; Unfortunately, you don&#039;t have any way to prove one verses the other.&nbsp; Without that, the authorities can&#039;t do anything.&nbsp; Even though you have contact information, what you have is not enough evidence to allow the authorities to get a search warrant or anything. </p><p><br /></p><p>So, you can try...but I think it would be a waste of time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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