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Message:: [QUOTE="krispy, post: 625830, member: 19065"]I thought this was a funny bit of copy, as it only acknowledges two sets of people, those who don't think much of pennies and those who inject specific ideological meaning into the altered coin. "and to many people, it is almost worthless." What about the masses of coin collectors and the people that create currency, none of them think its worthless. In fact it's such incorrect reasoning that without cents in circulation the economy wouldn't function. Coins exist for a specific operational reason. It doesn't matter what people think this means, to each their own. I'm definitely not poking fun of these folks. It's obviously a cheap vehicle for carrying this message, thus they exploit it for ideological purposes. Perhaps these folks have US Treasury permission to alter the coins they punch out. They did after all send a huge cross made of the punched out remnants, set on a base in the shape of the state of Texas to George W Bush (43), it's pictured on their site. In general altering US coins and currency to the extent that they must be removed from circulation remains a federal offense. Per <a href="http://www.usmint.gov/consumer/18USC331.cfm?flash=no" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usmint.gov/consumer/18USC331.cfm?flash=no" rel="nofollow">http://www.usmint.gov/consumer/18USC331.cfm?flash=no</a> [/QUOTE]