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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2319869, member: 66&quot;]You left something out on your quote from Title 18 Chapter 17.&nbsp; What you quoted was from Section 331 and it reads</p><p><br /></p><p>Whoever <b>fraudulently</b> alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints of the United States, or any foreign coins which are by law made current or are in actual use or circulation as money within the United States; or</p><p><br /></p><p>Whoever <b>fraudulently</b> possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into the United States, any such coin, knowing the same to be altered, defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or lightened—</p><p><br /></p><p>Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.</p><p><br /></p><p>See the highlighted words.&nbsp; There has to be fraudulent intent for the alteration or mutilation to be illegal.</p><p><br /></p><p>What you quoted about the paper currency (Sec 333) is correct.&nbsp; Any alteration or mutilation of it, fraudulent intent or not, is illegal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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