This is a sad, sad day in this nation’s history.

It’s a sad day when the Mint sells out?

This isn’t the U.S. Mint who prints money under the authority of the Federal Treasury. This is the Franklin Mint. They don’t print money and mint coins, they sell little knick-knacks that your grandma has in her china cabinet.

The Franklin Mint is private mint and is not affiliated with the U.S. Mint. So the nation didn’t sell out! Get your facts straight. The US Mint creates official U.S. Coins. The Franklin Mint took those coins and added the “color enhancement” to the coins.

I guess three of us were posting at the same time.

I don’t understand how this is legal. It would seem to me that this would fall under “defacing public/government property”.

The sad part was that someone didn’t know the difference.

painting money is not defacing government property.The person who has the money in there possession owns the money and has the right to do whatever they want to with it,and the government can’t say anything to you.As long as you are not attempting to counterfit it,say by trying to change a Five dollar bill to a fifty dollar bill or something stupid like that

It’s interesting many are against the coin but don’t seem to think pasting the American flag on any sort of advertising is a problem.

It is “technically” illegal to do this as stated by the U.S. Mint, “It is illegal to turn a coin into an advertising vehicle, and violators can face a fine.”

I just hope I get one. The Silver Surfer is cool!