Pardon me is this is a dumb question but....

Isn't this "illegal"???
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I refuse to pardon you.

SIGNED: Judge Charley

 

Maybe the person who has the devil head penny would want one.

 

Anyway, separation of Church and State...

(c'mon now, that was funny in anybody's book)

 

No different than those laser cutout jewelry pieces.

For sure a "CoinStar" would reject them.

Z

 

I have a bagful of them. I make boxes for kids in our church and always put one of them in the box.

 

'Praise God from whom all blessings flow' (Organ Music)........this is the 'general section, right? I didn't look before I leaped into this one.........nope, I'll stand in the corner.

 

Not illegal in any way.
No fraud has been committed.

 

I like them. I have about 3 of them put away

 

I have one in with my token collection.

 

Not illegal and I can't believe somebody would pay $14.99 plus shipping for one.

 

Actually, it looks like the minimum order (@ $14.99 + 4.99 shipping) is 25 "coins", so, including shipping, that's 80 cents per coin (at least it doesn't look like they're using any zincolns in the advertising pic ).

Now if you buy the 250 pack, that reduces your cost per "coin" to 20 cents (free shipping).

 

They don't appear to be selling the crosses cut out of the cents. They may be selling that for scrap, which might be illegal because of rules against melting cents for copper. It is kind of like the old practice of clipping silver coins and keeping the extra silver while spending the original at face value.

 

Melting or using copper for artistic results is not illegal in ther US as per a rather difficult short and confusing numbered resolution. So one could melt the coppers into plates, sinks, toilets, even hats as long as you can claim artistic activity.

 

Get your blow torches out.....

 

Title 18, Chapter 17 - it is a crime. That said, national parks have rollers and die sets to make a keepsake out of a flattened cent. 18 USC 331

 

That code is only for bills, and notes, not coins. And much like the coin code, only in reference to defraud or alter a debt. Meaning just like the Carr coins, a loophole.

 

It applies to currency and coinage. You can be prosecuted, but to your point, more likely in cases where fraud is present. Still, if you take a bucket of copper cents to a scrapyard to cash in on high copper prices, if the scrap yard melts them down, they will face fines for sure.

 

If any member would like to receive a dime from the proverbial professor, to call their parents and inform them you are not going to make it in 1L, let me help, because that is the kind of guy I am:

CFR 31 Subtitle B Chapter 1 Part 82 Section 82. 1

AND
Section 82.2.

There is an exception...the only one; a temporary license issued by Congressional Authority (odd phrase, isn't it...does that mean a majority vote?) at the request of the Secretary of Treasury.

(This is known as Federal Gobbledygobbledness)

 

The key word in the statute is "fraudulently". If there is no intent to defraud, there is no crime.