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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 1003709, member: 4781&quot;]Yes, his art was confiscated because he took blank pieces of ordinary paper and made them look too much like real US currency.&nbsp;&nbsp; If he had done elaborate drawings on top of existing legal-tender bills, he would not have had anything confiscated.&nbsp;&nbsp; Note however, that Boggs is in jail because of a drug-related conviction - his jail sentence had nothing to do with his &quot;art&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I were to make a &quot;1964-D&quot; Peace Dollar out of an anonymous piece of metal (and without a &quot;COPY&quot; stamp), that would be counterfeiting (creating what looks like a legal-tender dollar out of something that wasn&#039;t).&nbsp;&nbsp; But taking <i>existing</i> legal-tender coins and changing the date and/or surface finish (without removing metal) is a different story and is completely legal.&nbsp;&nbsp; Making an entire coin vs altering an existing coin: these are two very different things when it comes to currency laws.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of those things have something in common.&nbsp;&nbsp; In all cases the people made something that looked like legal tender out of something that wasn&#039;t.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you used an actual dollar bill to make that matchbook cover, then no problem.&nbsp;&nbsp; I should add that I&#039;ve never heard of any of those specific incidents you listed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again it seems that perhaps you are not considering that creating a legal-tender fake from scratch is vastly different than modifying an existing legal-tender instrument (so long as the modifications are not for fraudulent purposes).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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