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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 398914, member: 5833&quot;]anyone who “alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens” coins can face fines or prison time.</p><p><br /></p><p>“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, <i><b>with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued</b></i>,” can be fined or imprisoned as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jewellery made from cut out coins has been around as long as I can remember, let&#039;s just say a good long time.&nbsp; Either this law is not much enforced, or article does not tell the whole story when it comes to coins.&nbsp; As for currency, think the purpose for which the alteration was made comes into it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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