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<p>[QUOTE="john65999, post: 7902232, member: 111931"]<font size="6"><b>Yes, It’s Legal!</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>Many people assume that it’s illegal to stamp or write on paper currency, but they’re wrong! We’re not defacing U.S. currency, we’re decorating dollars! There are three things that you CANNOT do to paper currency:</p><p><br /></p><ol> <li>You CANNOT change the denomination — for example, you cannot add two zeros to a one dollar bill and pretend that it’s a one hundred dollar bill. That’s illegal.</li> <li>You CANNOT burn, shred, or destroy currency, rendering it unfit for circulation.</li> <li>You CANNOT advertise a business on paper currency. For example, if you own a Bagel shop, you cannot stamp “Eat at Joe’s Bagel’s” on a dollar.</li> </ol><p>But we are putting political messages on the bills, not commercial advertisements. Because we all want these bills to stay in circulation and we’re stamping to send a message about an issue that’s important to us, it’s legal!</p><p><br /></p><p>this from a post asking is it illegal to stamp currency, looking for the coin one now[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="john65999, post: 7902232, member: 111931"][SIZE=6][B]Yes, It’s Legal![/B][/SIZE] Many people assume that it’s illegal to stamp or write on paper currency, but they’re wrong! We’re not defacing U.S. currency, we’re decorating dollars! There are three things that you CANNOT do to paper currency: [LIST=1] [*]You CANNOT change the denomination — for example, you cannot add two zeros to a one dollar bill and pretend that it’s a one hundred dollar bill. That’s illegal. [*]You CANNOT burn, shred, or destroy currency, rendering it unfit for circulation. [*]You CANNOT advertise a business on paper currency. For example, if you own a Bagel shop, you cannot stamp “Eat at Joe’s Bagel’s” on a dollar. [/LIST] But we are putting political messages on the bills, not commercial advertisements. Because we all want these bills to stay in circulation and we’re stamping to send a message about an issue that’s important to us, it’s legal! this from a post asking is it illegal to stamp currency, looking for the coin one now[/QUOTE]
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