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Isn't it illegal to mutilate money?

According to the U.S. Code, Title 18; Part I; Chapter 17; Section 331 only the FRAUDULENT alteration of US coins is illegal. By this it means whoever tries to sell or pass an altered coin as something more valuable than it really is. That could mean changing the date or mintmark to that of a coin more valuable to coin collectors or changing the denomination (cutting cents down to the size of dimes to use in vending machines). It can also mean filing or cutting the edges of gold or silver coins to cheat on the weight and value of a coin. Almost everyone has gone to a zoo, amusement park or tourist attraction and put a penny in a machine that rolls out the penny and stamps a design on to it. These machines would not be around if it were illegal. And image the over-crowding in our prisons for all of us kids that smashed coins on railroad tracks!

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