Originally posted by ClubJuggle:
Originally posted by kyebosh:
United States Code
TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I - CRIMES
CHAPTER 17 - COINS AND CURRENCY
§ 333. Mutilation of national bank obligations
âWhoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or
unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill,
draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking
association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System,
with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence
of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or
imprisoned not more than six months, or both.â |
This law does not apply to coins, though there is a separate law which does.
Paul, the reason why those souvenir penny machines are legal is that the law only prohibits defacement of coins with a value greater than five cents.
-Terry |
I'll never let any cash burn a hole in my pocket again : )
Bad enough to need Bactine without running afoul of the Secret Service.
I bolded a relevant part if the citation above -- as I understand it, you can legally burn a dollar almost in half. If you have enough of a damaged bill that it can be replaced (without risk of the other part being redeemed separately) you should be OK. |
