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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JBK, post: 342779, member: 1101&quot;]I don&#039;t have the text in front of me, but I really do believe that putting a small &quot;COPY&quot; stamp on a counterfeot note does not render it legal.&nbsp; The HPA was more aimed at coins, for example.</p><p><br /></p><p>As has been stated, it is not illegal to own a ****erfeit, but the note itself is illegal and can be confiscated.&nbsp; There is a small but incredibly important distinction there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly, to bleach a dollar bill to show what it looks like would be illegal.&nbsp; Laws against defacing currency (which apply to paper money, not coins) prohibit intentionally making a bill unsuitabke for reissuance.&nbsp; So, if you try your best to deface a note so that it is no longer fit for circulation, but fail in your efforts, then you have not broken the law.&nbsp; Or, if you do not intentionally try to make it unfit for reissuance but accidentally make it unfit for circulation, you have not broken the law.&nbsp; But, if you deface the bill with the intention of making it unfit for circaultion and you succeed in your effoerts, you have broken the law. </p><p><br /></p><p>(I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice - this is my understanding after some careful reading of the relevent laws.&nbsp; You can make your own conclusions).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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