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<p>[QUOTE="SeberHusky, post: 2316972, member: 72959"]According to Title 18, Chapter 17 of the U.S. Code, which sets out crimes related to <a href="http://www.livescience.com/2058-profound-history-coins.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.livescience.com/2058-profound-history-coins.html" rel="nofollow">coins and currency</a>, anyone who “alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens” coins can face fines or prison time. The same goes for debasing – that is, decreasing the proportion of precious metals – in <a href="http://www.livescience.com/11363-top-10-rare-coins.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.livescience.com/11363-top-10-rare-coins.html" rel="nofollow">gold or silver coins</a> struck or coined at an American mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>Similarly, anyone who “mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued,” can be fined or imprisoned.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SeberHusky, post: 2316972, member: 72959"]According to Title 18, Chapter 17 of the U.S. Code, which sets out crimes related to [URL='http://www.livescience.com/2058-profound-history-coins.html']coins and currency[/URL], anyone who “alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens” coins can face fines or prison time. The same goes for debasing – that is, decreasing the proportion of precious metals – in [URL='http://www.livescience.com/11363-top-10-rare-coins.html']gold or silver coins[/URL] struck or coined at an American mint. Similarly, anyone who “mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued,” can be fined or imprisoned.[/QUOTE]
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