“Von NotHaus designed the Liberty Dollar currency in 1998 and the Liberty coins were marked with the ‘$,’ the words ‘dollar,’ ‘USA,’ ‘Liberty,’ ‘Trust in God’ (instead of ‘In God We Trust’) and other features associated with legitimate U.S. coinage.
IMHO, he screwed up using the dollar sign ‘$’ and using the word ‘dollar’, the rest of the charges were easily contestable.
More detailed article:
http://gata.org/node/9715
That seems accurate, especially considering he was only found guilty on the counterfeiting charges, and not guilty on the other charges.
I thought the definition of “dollar” was something like 132.7 grains of gold or whatever?