I understand your emotions, Amit. I support your reasoning. However, take into account that this is fighting a losing battle.
I vividly remember the anger of the numismatic community when the first "Dutch" pseudo-coin appeared: Netherland Antilles KM 14, "25 gulden" 1973. It was damned for everything from not circulating to omitting the signature of Prof. Wenkebach, whose designs were used. I wrote some articles against such pieces and got them published. The only feedback was a protest that maundy money would be considered non-circulating also.
When we started this site, I was still protesting non-circulating pieces and calling them pseudo-coins. I was told I was irritating people and achieving nothing. From time to time, the most egregious nonsense pieces can still work me up and I claim the right of an old geezer to be grumpy, but I have drawn new battle lines. People should collect what they want to collect, as long as they know what they are getting into. In the long run, I'll lose that one too.
The message of my story is that you are up against commercialism, greed, inertia and worse. You can't win against those forces. You cannot even delay them. You can just vent your spleen (wherever your spleen is) once in a while.
Peter
