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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dougmeister, post: 2960829, member: 56842&quot;]<a href="http://nowiknow.com/when-a-penny-saved-is-ten-thousand-pennies-earned/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://nowiknow.com/when-a-penny-saved-is-ten-thousand-pennies-earned/" rel="nofollow">http://nowiknow.com/when-a-penny-saved-is-ten-thousand-pennies-earned/</a></p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>“Manufacturing counterfeit United States currency or altering genuine currency to increase its value is a violation of Title 18, Section 471 of the United States Code and is punishable by a fine or imprisonment for up to 15 years, or both.</p><p><br /></p><p>Possession of counterfeit United States obligations with fraudulent intent is a violation of Title 18, Section 472 of the United States Code and is punishable by a fine or imprisonment for up to 15 years, or both.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone who manufactures a counterfeit U.S. coin in any denomination above five cents is subject to the same penalties as all other counterfeiters.”</p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p>The quote is from <a href="https://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/penny_with_the_weight_of_its_own_making" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/penny_with_the_weight_of_its_own_making" rel="nofollow">a website</a> I have never heard of.</p><p><br /></p><p>A <a href="https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2010-title18/html/USCODE-2010-title18-partI-chap25-sec472.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2010-title18/html/USCODE-2010-title18-partI-chap25-sec472.htm" rel="nofollow">U.S. Government website reference to Title 18, Section 471</a></p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><b>&quot;§471. Obligations or securities of United States</b></font></p><p>Whoever, with intent to defraud, falsely makes, forges, counterfeits, or alters any obligation or other security of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.&quot;</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>A <a href="https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2010-title18/html/USCODE-2010-title18-partI-chap25-sec472.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2010-title18/html/USCODE-2010-title18-partI-chap25-sec472.htm" rel="nofollow">U.S. Government website reference to Title 18, Section 472</a></p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>&quot;<b><font size="4">§472. Uttering counterfeit obligations or securities</font></b></p><p>Whoever, with intent to defraud, passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or with like intent brings into the United States or keeps in possession or conceals any falsely made, forged, counterfeited, or altered obligation or other security of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.&quot;</p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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