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A comment on 31,140 Pennies Used for a Kitchen Floor.

Re:31,140 Pennies Used for a Kitchen Floor by jtokoph on Thursday August 30, 2012 @05:35PM (#4456970)
If the glue/sealing process damages the pennies to the point where they can't be used again, this is illegal.
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Re:31,140 Pennies Used for a Kitchen Floor by csours on Thursday August 30, 2012 @05:42PM (#4457007)
Only if you try to spend them.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1405/is-it-legal-to...

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Re:31,140 Pennies Used for a Kitchen Floor by wickeand000 on Thursday August 30, 2012 @05:45PM (#4457027)
Nope, In the US it is illegal to deface currency for any reason.

---------------------------------- Title 18 United States Code, Section 331

Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints of the United States, or any foreign coins which are by law made current or are in actual use or circulation as money within the United States; or

Whoever fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into the United States, any such coin, knowing the same to be altered, defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or lightened -

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both ----------------------------------

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Re:31,140 Pennies Used for a Kitchen Floor by pavel_lishin on Thursday August 30, 2012 @05:49PM (#4457051)
And the StraightDope covers that exact passage, and focuses strongly on the "fraudulently" part.

Please point to the part of the kitchen where the fraud is occurring.

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Re:31,140 Pennies Used for a Kitchen Floor by ktizo on Thursday August 30, 2012 @05:58PM (#4457089)
Someone should point this out to the people who make the penny squishing machines for tourists that they had on the San Francisco docks when I visited many moons ago. Does anybody know if they are still there at all?
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