As many collectors of American coins know, in 1964, US president Lyndon Johnson had the mint strike 90% silver dollars with the old Peace dollar design, which hadn't been issued since 1935. Congressional authorization for releasing these 1964-dated coins was never approved, so they were ordered to be melted. Some people think that there may be a few of those coins hidden in collections, but they would be illegal to own.
Given that scenario, Daniel Carr has recently released his own version of the 1964-D Peace dollar design, overstruck on actual Peace dollars from 1922-1935. The issuance has led to some controversy, since Carr chose not to include a Hobby Protection Act "COPY" stamp on the pieces. In Carr's view, for a variety of reasons, these are not copies.
I bring this up for a couple of reasons myself, one to notify the castle of another great Carr design, but also to mention that this was a very hot topic over on the PCGS Collectors Universe forum, that has since been curtailed by the moderators, ostensibly since the topic was not actual US coins.
Carr has gone from success to success with his operation (including the KotCT strikes) and it all serves the numismatic community in an educational manner. But currently his ability to reach a wide audience of numismatists is somewhat limited, especially since the recent CU forum crackdown.
Does anyone have any ideas for Carr to be able to communicate online better? He mentioned to me the idea of perhaps having a special forum attached to the KotCT forums here, but to me that would necessitate allowing non-knights and knightesses to particpate in that, and whatever moderation that might entail.
Let's here what you think about some of what I've brought up.
Here's Carr's website:
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