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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1630813, member: 66&quot;]Actually it depends on what section of Title 18 you look at.</p><p><br /></p><p>BUncirculated quoted section 490 which does make counterfeiting one and five cent pieces illegal.&nbsp; Detecto did not quote which section he was looking at but it was section 485 which only makes counterfeiting coins of greater than five cents illegal.&nbsp; So you are both right.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason for the two different sections goes back to when the coins greater than five cents were made of silver and gold.&nbsp; The law created one section covering counterfieting of gold and silver coin, and another section that covered the counterfeiting of the minor base metal coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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