I suppose that you think the government should arrest everyone who sells a product that is exactly what it says it is, if the profit margin is too high, because they’re playing on the emotions of the buyer.
Selling Maple Leafs is o.k., because they only have commodity value. But, selling coins with a depction of the Twin Towers, or of Princess Diana, or of Elvis, that would be suspect because potential buyers might be attributing emotional value to them.
No. He is trying to make people think that these things are more than just nifty little medallions.
Do the Franklin min people try to get you to buy the coins as a means of barter? No. They are commemorative coins and they sell them as nothing more. The Liberty Dollar peddler plays with semantics to convince people that they are buying something more than any commemorative coin.