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<p>[QUOTE="Bradley Trotter, post: 6550689, member: 101226"]Then again, the issue of colorizing coins probably falls into a legal grey area.</p><p><br /></p><p>Federal statute 18 USC 331 “whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the <b>coins</b> coined at the mints of the United States … shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”</p><p><br /></p><p>However, it should be noted the keyword, in this case fraudulent. Therefore, there must be the intent to defraud a party to be considered an illegal act. Regardless, [USER=118293]@CoinJockey73[/USER]'s question was rather narrow in scope, and yes, it is technically illegal to deface coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bradley Trotter, post: 6550689, member: 101226"]Then again, the issue of colorizing coins probably falls into a legal grey area. Federal statute 18 USC 331 “whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the [B]coins[/B] coined at the mints of the United States … shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.” However, it should be noted the keyword, in this case fraudulent. Therefore, there must be the intent to defraud a party to be considered an illegal act. Regardless, [USER=118293]@CoinJockey73[/USER]'s question was rather narrow in scope, and yes, it is technically illegal to deface coins.[/QUOTE]
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