Posted on 08/29/2011 4:53:46 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
How can anyone disagree? Unless he works for the US Govt.
If you put “dollar” on a silver coin, expect to get hammered.
Put “one ounce .999 fine silver” on a coin, and sail blissfully along.
Some fights are not worth fighting. Like, taking on the might of the US Govt by stamping “dollar” on a privately-minted silver coin.
Do we really need a federal government?
It’s an idiot argument, and .gov is wrong as usual, but there are plenty of other names...I personally am partial to “guilder” - it just rolls nicely off the tongue.
Is it OK to put $5-$10 or $20 dollars on Monopoly money? It says dollars on them, but we know they are not govt authorized because they are different shapes and colors. It is a stupid judge, a stupid system and a corrupt one that penalizes someone for giving something of worth, for what another considers a fair trade.
Now just wait a cotton-pickin' minute... what's this all about??? :-)
I got some tabs, yeah, but they're not "infinitely adjustable", don'tcha know...
Instead of dollar, how about a stamping of Nobama? I bet those would be worth a lot (unlike the real dollar). Five Nobamas would buy far more than a couple hundred dollars.
It’s like “Dollar” is their trademark. Just pick your own name, and you’ll be fine.
I'll offer a trillion Obama Dollers for each Liberty Dollar
My older set does too, it has the $ sign even.
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Okay, now will they sieze ‘Goldwater Dollars’ next?
Just call it a “Thaler”.
So will the Federal goons go beat up on Canada because they dare to call their money ‘dollars’? I don’t recall the Treasury having a trademark on the word ‘dollar’.
I disagree. I think the problem is they are “bulk” precious metal. FDR confiscated gold back in 1933, but excepted numismatic coins (US gold coins)issued in 1933 or earlier.
My acquisitions are numismatic gold and silver coins 100 years old. I still need to get rid of a bar of silver before the end of the year.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/gold-coin-dealers-decry-tax-law/story?id=11211611
Nobody I know has had any problem buying or selling large quantities of .999 silver rounds or bars. The only ones I’ve read about having problems with the feds are the guys who stupidly stamped DOLLAR somewhere on their pribately minted coins.
If you have any examples of privately minted coin makers, dealers or buyers getting into legal hassles who did NOT stamp “dollar” on their coins, please let me know.
If a govt puts “dollar” on their money (Canada, Aussie etc) then the fedgov doesn’t mind.
But don’t let a private American citizen try it! That seems to be the lesson here.
I’m not excusing it or trying to make sense of it. It’s absurd. But it seems to be the fedgov’s operating reality, so it’s wise to account for it.
Seems pretty dumb to go to jail for not doing due-diligence, and finding out what many of us have known forever, that the fedgov freaks out when an American mints a coin with DOLLAR on it.
Coin money and regulate the value thereof PING
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