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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1416192, member: 112&quot;]Dunno, but probably. The design visible on the coin is still exactly the same. Putting paint on it or even plating it doesn&#039;t change it. It is still readily identifiable as what it was originally.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No, I would have to say a hobo nickel is not legal tender because it has been changed physically so that the original design is no longer there. A hobo nickel also has its weight diminished by the carving, and by our law if the weight is reduced then it is no longer legal tender. </p><p><a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/331" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/331" rel="nofollow">http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/331</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No, it is not, again by law.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/331" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/331" rel="nofollow">http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/331</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>OK, but then there is section 18 USC 331 - </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, 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</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">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—</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/331" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/331" rel="nofollow">http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/331</a></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/331" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/331" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">And there is also this law which applies to 1 and 5 cent coins only&nbsp; - </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/490" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/490" rel="nofollow">http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/490</a></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/490" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/490" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">And Daniel, this law in particular - <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/487" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/487" rel="nofollow">http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/487</a>&nbsp; - is one which places you personally right on the edge, in my opinion. I don&#039;t know that some of what you do is illegal, or that some of what you do is not illegal. That would depend on how a judge would interpret that particular law. The thing I would be worried about if I were you is that the law makes no distinction between older coins, and modern,</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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