$77.00 in pennies used as a floor....

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  2. Conder101

    Conder101 Numismatist

    Bathrooms tend to be built with VERY solid floors (often concrete), settling isn't likely to be a problem.

    Except it isn't. (Very common misconception.) There is no law preventing you from mutilating/destroying any US coin you wish with one exception. It is illegal the MELT DOWN cents or non-silver five cent pieces. It is still perfectly legal to mutilate them, you just can't melt them.

    On the other hand it IS illegal to deface US CURRENCY in such a way so as to render it unfit to be reissued. And the laws in the US code separately address coins and currency so when the law says currency that does not include the coinage.

    Back in the latter part of the 19th century there WAS a law forbidding the defacing of US coins, because at the time the fad of making love tokens was popular. The law was repealed sometime before 1918. And in 1967 it was made illegal to melt down US silver coins. That law was repealed in 1969.
     
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  3. rte

    rte Well-Known Member

    What going to happen to the 40,000 fake ASE's & AGE's the ACEF just seized?

    Where Can I put in a bid for demilling/destruction?

    That would make for a very cool floor.
     
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