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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 669852, member: 57463&quot;]Counterfeit US money is contraband and can be seized without a warrant.</p><p>It is illegal to buy or sell counterfeit US money.</p><p><br /></p><p>All US coins and US government legal tender banknotes are lawful money of hte United States and counterfeiting them is a crime.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In fact, US law forbids all forgeries of all forms of money.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Moreover, lack of enforcement is not endorsement. </b> In other words just because hundreds of criminals operate an open air market on eBay does not change the law.&nbsp; If there is a fire downtown and the police are there directing traffic, the lack of police enforcement at the Mall is not your invitation to rob the jeweler.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Misguided and misinformed collectors sometimes fall prey to fast talking hucksters who sell fakes on the grounds that they are &quot;educational.&quot;&nbsp; The crooks say that by knowing counterfeits, you can protect yourself.&nbsp; This is false.&nbsp; The way to protect yourself against fakes is to know the genuine material.&nbsp; Anything that does not meet that standard is suspect.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the Cornell University Law School website for the <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/" rel="nofollow">US Code (here)</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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