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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;billzach, post: 69037, member: 2560&quot;]i think most of what we,ve heard about defacing money comes from the period when people were taking 5 cent pieces and plating them with gold and passing them off as gold coins, since the design and size was close to the gold coin... i think it was in the late 1800,s, but i,m not sure on the date....if you get to thinking, people have been cutting silhouettes out on mercury dimes for over 50 years and selling them in jewelry stores..today people change dates, mint marks to add value to coins which is illegal if a person is doing it to raise it,s value...as the other forum members have said it could be illegal if a person had fraud in mind....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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