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Currency as Art 2.0 – Defacing Bills

March 6, 2013
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Defacing paper currency is treated slightly differently than defacing coins. In this case, the key words in the statute are “render such band bill … unfit to be reissued.” So long as the currency-as-artwork doesn’t render a bill unfit to be reissued, the law usually doesn’t have much of a problem with it. On the…

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Currency as Art 1.0 – Defacing Coins

March 6, 2013
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Defacing coins and the possible consequences - does the innocence of a penny press outweigh the possible insidious intentions of hoarding those same pennies to melt for copper? What about coin necklaces, and coin art?

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