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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Owle, post: 1366828, member: 22004&quot;]<b>Coin killers</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Once again the law reads as follows on coins:</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">United States Code</span></font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">TITLE 18</span></font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">PART I</span></font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">CHAPTER 17 </span></font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">§ 331. Mutilation, diminution, and falsification of coins</span></font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">&nbsp;</span></font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes,</span></font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints of the United States, or any foreign coins which are by law made current or are in actual use or circulation as money within the United States; or whoever fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into the United States, any such coin, knowing the same to be altered, defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or lightened Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.</span></font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">&nbsp;</span></font></font></span><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Plain english....do we need to get out a dictionary on this one and explain the plain meaning of words?&nbsp; I could ask a lawyer to comment, it may be helpful when even the leading moderator wants to dismiss this concern.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">PNG is working hard on definitions of coin doctoring, that is a subset of this topic.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">And as for some people dismissing this as not worthy of law enforcement&#039;s resources I have a name to run by them--Alphonse Gabriel &quot;<i>Al</i>&quot; <i>Capone</i>, ring a bell?</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">The point being, when the authorities get around to busting up the coin doctors and damagers, they will also find drug dealing, tax evasion and many other crimes too numerous to list here.&nbsp; </span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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