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Posted 02/24/2010 09:57 am
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That is exactly my point... It has been a strong legal stand point for many many years. If the manufacturer/seller is making a product in accordance with the law (IE: telling people that the coin is a replica and not trying to pass it off as real.) and then the buyer uses said product to violate a law then the onus is on the buyer and not the manufacturer/seller.
For instance, if you were to go down to a large chain auto parts store like pepboys/checker/schucks/kragen what have you.. You would find a great deal of products that are not legally allowed to be installed in vehicles in that area. It is not illegal to sell those products or to have those products but it is illegal to install those products and use them when your vehicle is in motion.
Like in California it is illegal to have any colored lights on you car with the exception of white/clear and amber in the front .. red and amber in the back.. In Virginia it is illegal to have a radar detector in your car. In most states it is illegal to have under carriage lighting installed.. but no matter what state you live in you can find multi colored light inserts or covers for side marker and head lights, you can find radar detectors, and you can find under carriage lighting.
The reason they can still sell those parts is because of the small amount of people that use them only for off-road and/or show cars.
The same holds true with coins.. Replica/Copy coins will remain legal because of those people that buy them for reasons that do not include breaking laws.
That is exactly my point... It has been a strong legal stand point for many many years. If the manufacturer/seller is making a product in accordance with the law (IE: telling people that the coin is a replica and not trying to pass it off as real.) and then the buyer uses said product to violate a law then the onus is on the buyer and not the manufacturer/seller.
For instance, if you were to go down to a large chain auto parts store like pepboys/checker/schucks/kragen what have you.. You would find a great deal of products that are not legally allowed to be installed in vehicles in that area. It is not illegal to sell those products or to have those products but it is illegal to install those products and use them when your vehicle is in motion.
Like in California it is illegal to have any colored lights on you car with the exception of white/clear and amber in the front .. red and amber in the back.. In Virginia it is illegal to have a radar detector in your car. In most states it is illegal to have under carriage lighting installed.. but no matter what state you live in you can find multi colored light inserts or covers for side marker and head lights, you can find radar detectors, and you can find under carriage lighting.
The reason they can still sell those parts is because of the small amount of people that use them only for off-road and/or show cars.
The same holds true with coins.. Replica/Copy coins will remain legal because of those people that buy them for reasons that do not include breaking laws.
I understand your point. The problem with it is that all the products you mention are legal in and of themselves.
If the manufacturers/sellers complied with the portion of your post that I highlighted in red I would agree with you. However, the majority of these coins are not marked as copies/replicas. Telling the buyer it's a copy/replica does not comply with the law, they must be marked.
I agree that the onus is on the person that alters a legal replica/copy by removing the mark.
