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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3179287, member: 27832&quot;]If you look at activity in the hobby over the last century or two, it&#039;s completely obvious that &quot;altering genuine currency to increase its value&quot; means changing its apparent <i>denomination</i>. Bleaching a $1 bill and reprinting it as a $20 (pre-security-measures), for example.</p><p><br /></p><p>Carving a love token &quot;increases its value&quot; in the sense of <i>sentimental</i> value, but doesn&#039;t increase its <i>denomination</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Plating a dollar in silver or gold or platinum &quot;increases its value&quot; if you can sell it to suckers watching a shopping channel, but doesn&#039;t increase its <i>denomination</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>People have been making love tokens literally for centuries. People have been defacing or plating coins <i>without fraudulent intent</i> for longer than that, most likely. That is not a crime.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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