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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 7659368, member: 66&quot;]Bathrooms tend to be built with VERY solid floors (often concrete), settling isn&#039;t likely to be a problem.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Except it isn&#039;t. (Very common misconception.)&nbsp; There is no law preventing you from mutilating/destroying any US coin you wish with one exception.&nbsp; It is illegal the MELT DOWN cents or non-silver five cent pieces.&nbsp; It is still perfectly legal to mutilate them, you just can&#039;t melt them.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand it IS illegal to deface US CURRENCY in such a way so as to render it unfit to be reissued.&nbsp; And the laws in the US code separately address coins and currency&nbsp; so when the law says currency that does not include the coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>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forbidding the defacing of US coins, because at the time the fad of making love tokens was popular.&nbsp; The law was repealed sometime before 1918.&nbsp; And in 1967 it was made illegal to melt down US silver coins.&nbsp; That law was repealed in 1969.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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