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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FadeToBlack, post: 1579617, member: 39705&quot;]The law is only directed at those who alter or mutilate coins with the intent to deceive or defraud others.&nbsp; IE trimming the reeding off a gold double eagle back when they circulated... that could net you about .033oz... do it 33 times and you have an oz of gold.&nbsp; There are stories (of questionable authenticity, granted) about coins being sliced in half or drilled out and filled with lead inserts to take up the weight/space of the removed gold.&nbsp; That&#039;s what the law pertains to, not some jackass that wants to paint coins to mark where they&#039;re going.&nbsp; What TimZim did was stupid, selfish, greedy, shortsighted, ignorant, and a million other things... but it was not illegal, not by a far cry.</p><p><br /></p><p>At any rate, IIRC, he got told that if he didn&#039;t stop painting them, they were gonna cut him off.&nbsp; So it is no longer an issue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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