It's legal.
Section 331 of Title 18 of the United States code provides criminal penalties for anyone who “fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the Mints of the United States.”
Key word there is FRAUDULENTLY, if you change the currency not for fraud but for ART it is legal.
2006-12-15 08:34:26
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answered by hq3 6
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It is ok, believe me, the Feds have better things to do than check sculptures for superglued money. Have you ever seen a token machine, that will take a penny you provide, and mash it down into a souvenir? Well, nobody is confiscating those machines nationwide, so I don't believe the Feds care. If you were mass producing something and selling millions of them, then maybe they would come and talk to you. But someones art project selling for a few bucks? It isn't on their radar.
2006-12-15 08:21:22
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answered by Travis R 3
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No, since the coin would not be defaced or destroyed by superglue. Drilling a hole through a coin can get you in trouble, if they prosecute. They won't likely do that for one or two, but if you go into large scale production, you would most likely incur the wrath of Uncle Sam.
KrazyKyngeKorny
(Krazy, not stupid)
2006-12-15 07:18:54
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answered by Anonymous
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You must make the currency "unsutable for circulation" - since you could unglue the coins, that doesn't apply. Sawing the coins in half would in theory be illegal, but no-one is going to prosecute you for it. Ever see one of those souvenir machine that squishes a penny into a model of the Golden Gate bridge, or things like that? Well, they are legal.
2006-12-15 07:20:56
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answered by Anonymous
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Artistically it's a pretty cool idea but unfortunately, it is against the law. They call it defacing US currency.
2006-12-15 07:18:34
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answered by Ricky J. 6
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cover your car with coins its art but be careful maybe sum 1 will steal it ,
2006-12-15 07:17:29
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answered by Anonymous
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