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<p>[QUOTE="Oldhoopster, post: 5178723, member: 84179"]<i>Federal statute 18 USC 331 “whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints of the United States … shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The key is the word FRAUDULENTLY. The OP is not trying to pass his coins off as anything other than a nickel. If he said they were hobo quarters, then maybe you might have something, but otherwise…no big deal. Same thing with elongated cents. I hope [USER=10461]@lordmarcovan[/USER] doesn't get arrested for the elongated coins he made <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Edit to add: Among the member clubs belonging to The American Numismatic Association are The Elongated Collectors and Original Hobo Nickel Society. They don't seem to have a problem with the statute[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Oldhoopster, post: 5178723, member: 84179"][I]Federal statute 18 USC 331 “whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints of the United States … shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”[/I] The key is the word FRAUDULENTLY. The OP is not trying to pass his coins off as anything other than a nickel. If he said they were hobo quarters, then maybe you might have something, but otherwise…no big deal. Same thing with elongated cents. I hope [USER=10461]@lordmarcovan[/USER] doesn't get arrested for the elongated coins he made ;) Edit to add: Among the member clubs belonging to The American Numismatic Association are The Elongated Collectors and Original Hobo Nickel Society. They don't seem to have a problem with the statute[/QUOTE]
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