Delude wrote:Well from i know, Eddie Gibso is legally aloud to de-face coins, others (like maybe mine i think) are faked (even though mine is absolutely brilliant!) and sometimes are of lesser quality and not made properly. With Eddie's you know that they are perfect.
I'm pretty sure this is incorrect. After all, it's likely to be more illegal to produce a replica of a coin (ie. a forgery) than to deface a legitimate coin. I can't see why one particular company should have permisison to break the law anyway.
I think it's more likely that with the relatively small scale defacement/damage of coins by these companies, and the fact that the end product costs more than the original coin (therefore being unlikely to be deliberately passed off as real currency), it's not really worth anybody's time to prosecute any of these companies for treason or any other laughable offence. Especially since many are overseas.
Pretty much all coin gaffs I have ever seen have been made from real coins (apart from that Marvin's Magic Dynamic coins thing...), though the quality of the workmanship does vary considerably.