If you can answer this question, then you don't need to watch the video linked below:

Why are there still ridges on the edges of the federal reserve's quarters?

THIS IS FIFTEEN MINUTES OF MUST WACH/LISTEN COMMENTARY AND ANALYSIS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XWAZfAOwHk

I have not yet read/heard a more concise explanation of the importance of the guilty verdict (and subsequent naming him as a domestic terrorist) in Bernard von NotHaus' Liberty Dollar trial, than Peter Schiff does here in a 15 min video clip.

So many common sense statements regarding counterfeiting, evidence and fraud that our own fed reserve system is guilty of and are the very things BVNH was convicted by a federal legal system and is potentially going to prison for.

Schiff puts things in perspective like no other here.
Schiff asks rhetorically, "Who is Bernard terrorizing?"
The only people terrorized by Bernard's medallions are the federal reserve system, with the courts doing their bidding.

As Schiff puts it, "If you want to outlaw bartering, then go about doing it. Bernard was not counterfeiting. In fact the goods he produced had more value to its owners now than when they were acquired."

Counterfeiting is when you pass something along that is worth less than what it purports to be.