To be convicted, you must have the intent to defraud someone. For example, the U.S. Mint warns that wearing down edges of coins to make them appear to be error coins -- coins that are incorrectly struck by the U.S. Mint, often rare and popular with collectors -- and then selling them to collectors as error coins constitutes a crime.
I remember Trump telling us not to break the law.
This isn't breaking the law.
To be convicted, you must have the intent to defraud someone. For example, the U.S. Mint warns that wearing down edges of coins to make them appear to be error coins -- coins that are incorrectly struck by the U.S. Mint, often rare and popular with collectors -- and then selling them to collectors as error coins constitutes a crime.
The intent to defraud law is for coinage. Federal Reserve Notes fall under a different law and requires the defacement to have…
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/333
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https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/485