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Re: Coin Dealers in NYC
said by HardwareGeek  :You know what since I am a nice guy I looked it up for you. It is illegal to make and sell coin jewelry I would share my source of info which is the US Government but since you aren't looking for legal advice I won't just thought I let ya know though. I can't imagine ShopNBC a huge corporate entity (as well as the other shopping networks and fine jewelers) would break the law on TV on a constant basis. The coin jewelry they are selling is a brand new 2008 coin. Look at the link in my post showing what they are selling.
They even include the box the coin came in from the US mint. I'll take my chances that the corporate attorneys at NBC know something about the law.
FYI. Here is the law.
Copying coins for jewelry purposes or altering them to create jewelry is legal according to Title 18 U.S.C., Section 331. This section provides criminal penalties for anyone who alters coins for jewelry purposes and represents them to be something other than jewelry.
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 you may be violating the law if you change the appearance of the coin and fraudulently represent 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.
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HardwareGeek
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Brooklyn, NY
| Glad you read the law, now be careful what you do with what you want to do.
As long as you don't drill holes, solder the coins together your ok.
I doubt even if you did drill holes in the coin they would give two craps but hey never know 10 years from now you piss someone in the gov off and they find this thread and try to get you for something silly like this. |
