Whats the difference between counterfeiting and defacing a coin? Are they the same thing?
2006-08-06 05:33:00 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
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2006-08-06 05:37:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Counterfeiting is making a fake coin or bill.
Defacing a coin means making some kind of change to the appearance of a real coin. When you do this in one of those "souvenir penny" machines it's legal because the intent of the defacing isn't fraud. When you deface a coin to, say, fake out a vending machine, that's when it becomes illegal.
2006-08-06 05:39:24 · answer #2 · answered by Claude 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Counterfeiting a coin is making a copy to pass as real(illegal).
Defacing a coin is changing a coin that is real(legal).
2006-08-09 16:31:02 · answer #3 · answered by Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Defacing is modifying it, for whatever reason, for coins or purposes other than malicious intent its not usually made a big deal of. Counterfeiting is the manufacturing of fake coins that will pass as being real.
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2006-08-06 05:37:06 · answer #4 · answered by Duo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Defacing a coin is to mar it from being used,to counterfeit is to have a copy of the legal tendor to spend and obtain services and goods with unreal money
2006-08-06 05:39:49 · answer #5 · answered by highlander 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Counterfeiting is trying to create a duplicate an unauthorized copy, defacing is damagine the coin in any way, such as drilling a hole in, hammering it flat, etc.
2006-08-06 05:37:53 · answer #6 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
counterfeiting is making a fake and trying to pass it off as the real deal, defacing is well...defacing...its causing damage to the coin or bill. writing on it...painting on it...cutting it, whatever....
2006-08-06 05:37:20 · answer #7 · answered by lighting goddess 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Counterfeiting is making a fake one. Defacing is damaging a real one. Both are illegal in most countries.
2006-08-06 05:36:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you manage to make a mold of a current legal coin and pour melted lead into it, you have counterfeited a coin.
If you hit a coin with a hammer, or imprint your initials on a current legal coin, you have defaced it...................
2006-08-06 05:36:57 · answer #9 · answered by thomasrobinsonantonio 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Counterfeiting is creating your own money and defacing is damaging money.
2006-08-06 09:05:06 · answer #10 · answered by staisil 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Counterfeiting is to intentionally create something that you know is bogus, usually for capital gain.
Defacing something such as a coin, or anything else, is to change its appearance, which is considered damaging.
2006-08-06 05:38:29 · answer #11 · answered by jmiller 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋