Anyone ever thought about.....

[Mi$$ouri Jim]

Marking every clad coin you ever found before cashing them in to see if you get one back in change at a future date??

I think I may do this. I figured that I'd take a hammer & tool punch (I THINK that? is what its called) & place a single dot indention on the same place on every clad coin.? Maybe i will just do it on the quarters.? ?

 

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[Kentucky Kache]

I'm not sure, but I think that would be illegal.

 

[jeff of pa]

no it is not illegal to deface coins, or $1.00 Bills

Not shure on Higher Denominations tho

 

[tskl]

But what if the coins he marks someday become rare coins, would marking the reduce their value!

 

[jeff of pa]

But what if the coins he marks someday become rare coins, would marking the reduce their value!

Depends On HOW long Till it's Found.

When Ever I find An Old Coin With a Counter Stamp, It Means Alot More To me,

Then If it were Just a Normal Silver Coin.

 

[DigEmAll]

To be guilty of mutilating or defacing, one would have to render the money unuseable and non-machine countable. If he is simply going to put his mark on the coin that wouldn't be making it unuseable or uncountable in anyway.

Jeff is right and wrong. 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.? This statute means that one may be violating the law if he or she changes the appearance of the coin and fraudulently represents it to be other than the altered coin that it is. As a matter of policy, the U.S. Mint does not promote coloring, plating or altering U.S. coinage: however, there are no sanctions against such activity absent fraudulent intent.

Basically, one can do whatever he or she wishes to any coin as long as he or she isn't trying to take metal away or pass it as a different denomination or anything other than the altered coin that it is!

 

[bk]

Our club used to paint coins as tokens for competition hunts. The coins were really wild colors like hot pink. I remember getting some of these coins much later from circulation.