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Does it matter if they’re legal? Legality only matters if you respect laws.
Legality only matters if there are consequences. There are laws I obey without agreeing with them because I don't want the consequences of breaking them. That's why I didn't use marijuana before it became legal in Canada
They'll be great starters for Hobo coins.
begins? i've seen these in "antique" stores and estate sales from people whose grands got bilked, trying to get a fraction of what they paid or maybe face value. i have ideas for recasting, but i ain't a sculptor.
first one i distinctly recall seeing was june this year (they were asking 11/coin for the set or 75 cents each for a single. it'd been a week and no takers. not surprising for a small liberal west coast beach community. i told them they should list the metal content on a sign and drop the price to 60 cents a coin, they'd be gone in a day (i have a small amount of experience in secondhand stores))
i don't know if vending machines will take them. i'd be surprised if they do.
These coins specifically or coins like it?
Those were "memorial" coins, which generally arent curency and have lax regulation.
This current one is a 1 dollar for circulation as currency coin, and there is explicit law against putting a living president on a 1 dollar coin.
i needed to look that one up, since i know we have a few coin series - they're obviously putting him on that coin series illegally to break a law for fun, but like i am not a currency lawyer. if they made it a quarter or halfdollar it might be legal. all i can say is that it would not break that specific law.
No, it wouldnt be legal, because it'd still be in violation of the general law of putting living people on currency.
Its just there is extra special DONT PUT LIVING FUCKING PRESIDENTS ON 1 DOLLAR COINS law on top of it.
wait hold on you said a specific word i just caught. memorial. do you know specifics on that coin line? i searched [trump memorial coin] and got the one in the article discussed. it took me like ten minutes just to get to the shitcoins i found below but phone search bad
now let's put on our tinfoil hats and get out our corkboards and yarn. remember all those absolutely real assassination attempts? when did the memorial coin get started being called a "memorial" coin?i found these on scamazon so like, some are being called commemmorative [sic] and some memorial.
Uh.. I think wires are crossed here.
I'm talking about coins minted by the US mint. I'm not talking about every chudware coin thats churned out for "collectable" markets by private non-currency coin shaped item makers
They've always been called memorial coins. They memorialize an event. Like, in 1921 Alabama had a Memorial half dollar celebrating its 100 years as a state, and it had the first and the current living governor at the time on the coin together, and while technically a currency coin, it was also a memorial coin for the 100 years so thats why it had a still living person on it.
wires are crossed
tinfoil hats
oh good we're understanding each other
The last thing I saw on a Trump gold coin (not this one) was that it basically had less gold in it than sea water. The value really depends on scrap price. I know some of the official Trump brand coins are “high quality, rust and damage resistant iron alloy” so maybe 4¢ a lb. Any brass ones would be a couple bucks a pound if a place would take that particular alloy.
Vending machines would have to be sized and programmed for them.
Instead of pesos, they're called pedos.
It's just another grift from the Pedo-in-Chief.
This could easily become a thing
They're sold at above face value, so at least they're unlikely to circulate.
The kind of person who would buy these would also circulate them to somehow "own the libs"
“own the libs”
That's cool, because we can put anti-donnie stuff on every bit of paper currency that passes through our hands, but nearly for free.
Oh, and while you are at it, cross out that anti-American bullshit about trusting in their god. :)
The kind of person who would buy them already has a closet full of scam shit they've already fallen for but are convinced this one is the real deal
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"I will make it legal" - future Emperor Palpatine
Legal, illegal. What does it matter. As long as there's no meaningful punishment for it everything is legal. In a highly centralized state or government. Legal is what they allow the peasants to get away with. Legal has no relationship to the standards they hold themselves to.
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