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stormdog123 Valued Member United States 64 Posts	Posted 01/03/2011 08:09 am They are legal tender. The company bought real $2 bills and slapped a sticker on the bills. Report this Post to the Staff
eaglefoot Pillar of the Community United States 6326 Posts	Posted 01/03/2011 10:17 am Quote: Luckyseven......... Now for everyone to share some knowledge with me - if they're not from the Mint how can it say this is Legal Tender on it? Quote: They are legal tender. The company bought real $2 bills and slapped a sticker on the bills. Exactly ! It's only the "alteration" (or addition) that is not U.S. Mint. Like I said before.....the gold plated or colorized stuff is the same as this. They've "added" to a perfectly legal tender note.....and even after this "colorized" addition to the Note, it's STILL spendable and legal tender for $2.00. It's only illegal to misrepresent it and say the this is a US Mint product with this "alteration". Because the Mint did not do this "Yellowstone" stuff to it......nor do they plate gold over State Qtrs......nor do they "colorize" ASE's and other coins. Private companies do this perfectly legally and sell them to whoever they can get to buy them. Edited by eaglefoot 01/03/2011 10:22 am Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 01/03/2011 11:30 am Quote: They are no more illegal than the gold plated qtrs. or the colorized coins....in other words, it isn't illegal at all for private companies to do this. Well, maybe. You can take a coin and do just about anything you want to with it to damage, recolors etc and it is perfectly legal as long as you don't try and misrepresent it. But paper money is held to a stricter standard. Altering, damaging or mutilating a piece of paper money in such a way that it is "unfit to be reissued", is illegal. If the government decided that adding those colored images to the note made it unfit to be reissued then it would be illegal. Quote: if they're not from the Mint how can it say this is Legal Tender on it? Well how about for starters, the Mint doesn't make paper money, so none of th paper money in your pocket is from the mint but it is legal tender. Report this Post to the Staff
lukkyseven Pillar of the Community United States 880 Posts	Posted 01/03/2011 12:53 pm Ok from the Bureau then excuse me... Report this Post to the Staff
TNG Bedrock of the Community United States 10284 Posts	Posted 01/03/2011 1:00 pm You know if I didn't have any morals or scruples, I could be be very rich and think up a racket like that. The other two lately are the three pc 9-11 10 year anniversary coin and that blasted gold proof buffalo. Neither of which has a match head of gold and silver plating on them. Report this Post to the Staff
lukkyseven Pillar of the Community United States 880 Posts	Posted 01/03/2011 1:15 pm I think people figure it's been 10 years so now it's okay to make money off of 9/11? I know they've made and sold other stuff before too, just saying. I saw the 9/11 thing for the first time yesterday. Isn't it funny how they say it's the purest struck gold coin ever in the U.S.? Or something very close to that because it's .9999 lol... and it's yours for $9.99!! Report this Post to the Staff
nod2003 Pillar of the Community United States 3294 Posts	Posted 01/03/2011 2:57 pm Yeah I saw in the small print it has like 18 mg of gold. Current melt value of that is around 82 cents. Edited by nod2003 01/03/2011 2:58 pm Report this Post to the Staff
presto1210 New Member United States 17 Posts	Posted 01/03/2011 9:27 pm I almost bought one, until I realized I didnt want to pay $15 for $4 worth of painted money Report this Post to the Staff
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