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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 524682, member: 66"]The difference is that it is illegal to place a commercial ADVERTISEMENT on the coin or currency of the US and then use it in commerce. The Obama stickers are not advertising a commercial product. The specific statute is (bold emphasis is mine.)</p><p><br /></p><p>US code Title 18 Part 1 Chapter 25 Sec 475</p><p><br /></p><p>§ 475. Imitating obligations or securities; advertisements</p><p><br /></p><p>Whoever designs, engraves, prints, makes, or executes, or utters, issues, distributes, circulates, or uses any business or professional card, notice, placard, circular, handbill, or advertisement in the likeness or similitude of any obligation or security of the United States issued under or authorized by any Act of Congress or writes, prints, <b>or otherwise impresses upon or attaches to any such instrument, obligation, or security, or any coin of the United States, any business or professional card, notice, or advertisement, or any notice or advertisement whatever,</b> shall be fined under this title. Nothing in this section applies to evidence of postage payment approved by the United States Postal Service.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 524682, member: 66"]The difference is that it is illegal to place a commercial ADVERTISEMENT on the coin or currency of the US and then use it in commerce. The Obama stickers are not advertising a commercial product. The specific statute is (bold emphasis is mine.) US code Title 18 Part 1 Chapter 25 Sec 475 § 475. Imitating obligations or securities; advertisements Whoever designs, engraves, prints, makes, or executes, or utters, issues, distributes, circulates, or uses any business or professional card, notice, placard, circular, handbill, or advertisement in the likeness or similitude of any obligation or security of the United States issued under or authorized by any Act of Congress or writes, prints, [b]or otherwise impresses upon or attaches to any such instrument, obligation, or security, or any coin of the United States, any business or professional card, notice, or advertisement, or any notice or advertisement whatever,[/b] shall be fined under this title. Nothing in this section applies to evidence of postage payment approved by the United States Postal Service.[/QUOTE]
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