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It's okay to deface a penny
As long as it's not counterfeit
Dear Matthew: On vacation recently, I saw a machine that for 50 cents squashed a penny into a thin copper disk with a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge on it. I remember my dad telling me when I was a kid that it was illegal to deface money. How can this machine be legal? — Bob G., San Diego
Golly, don’t tell me Pops actually told little Bobby something that wasn’t true! Why, this must be the only time ever, ever that a dad has filled his kid’s bean with wrong-headed nonsense! And wrong-headed it is. Unless your intent is to counterfeit, you can mash, bend, staple, cut, fold, file, paint, melt, puncture, etch, or otherwise deface a coin, and you won’t show up one day on America’s Most Wanted. In fact, if you can get a lot of bozo tourists to pay you 50 or 100 times the penny’s face value once it’s smashed and embossed, why, go get ’em, Bob.
Here's something you might be interested in.
It's okay to deface a penny
As long as it's not counterfeit
It's okay to deface a penny
As long as it's not counterfeit
Dear Matthew: On vacation recently, I saw a machine that for 50 cents squashed a penny into a thin copper disk with a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge on it. I remember my dad telling me when I was a kid that it was illegal to deface money. How can this machine be legal? — Bob G., San Diego
Golly, don’t tell me Pops actually told little Bobby something that wasn’t true! Why, this must be the only time ever, ever that a dad has filled his kid’s bean with wrong-headed nonsense! And wrong-headed it is. Unless your intent is to counterfeit, you can mash, bend, staple, cut, fold, file, paint, melt, puncture, etch, or otherwise deface a coin, and you won’t show up one day on America’s Most Wanted. In fact, if you can get a lot of bozo tourists to pay you 50 or 100 times the penny’s face value once it’s smashed and embossed, why, go get ’em, Bob.
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