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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;john65999, post: 7908308, member: 111931&quot;]found the law:&nbsp; The process of creating elongated coins is legal in the United States, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa" rel="nofollow">South Africa</a> and parts of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe" rel="nofollow">Europe</a>. In the United States, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_18_of_the_United_States_Code" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_18_of_the_United_States_Code" rel="nofollow">U.S. Code Title 18</a>, Chapter 17, Section 331 prohibits &quot;the mutilation, diminution and falsification of United States coinage.&quot; The foregoing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute" rel="nofollow">statute</a>, however, does not prohibit the mutilation of coins, if the mutilated coins are not used fraudulently, i.e., with the intention of creating counterfeit coinage or profiting from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_metal" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_metal" rel="nofollow">base metal</a> (the pre-1982 copper U.S. cent which, as of 2010, is worth more than one cent in the United States).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elongated_coin#cite_note-11" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elongated_coin#cite_note-11" rel="nofollow">[11]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elongated_coin#cite_note-12" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elongated_coin#cite_note-12" rel="nofollow">[12]</a> Because elongated coins are made mainly as souvenirs, mutilation for this purpose is legal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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