Timeline for Has anyone been charged with defacing money?
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| Feb 13, 2017 at 14:25 | comment | added | Weckar E. | In the US, many publicly performing magicians (sometimes even on national television) will ask participants to mark a coin for later recognition. If this law were truly enforced without bias this would be a foolish act. | |
| Jan 20, 2016 at 22:34 | comment | added | gnasher729 | I seem to remember reading that someone was convicted in Turkey for burning banknotes with the image of Kemal Atatürk. Many years ago. Can't find any references. | |
| Mar 6, 2012 at 2:46 | vote | accept | going | ||
| Nov 30, 2011 at 12:44 | comment | added | jwenting | you may find more examples as you go down further in history, where such laws afaik originated (as contrary to counterfeiting laws) to make possible legal action against damaging the image of a king or queen on coins for political purposes. Can't remember sources, but this used to be the case in some European countries maybe as far back as the Roman era. | |
| Aug 31, 2011 at 12:40 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSkeptic/status/108881930266750977 | ||
| Aug 23, 2011 at 16:38 | answer | added | Oddthinking♦ | timeline score: 15 | |
| Aug 23, 2011 at 16:28 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | Argh, I remember this case, but can't find a reference :-( In the early 1990s, the then Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating obliged a request from a member of the public and autographed two bank-notes (which were of a new design he found objectionable). There were inevitable calls for him to be arrested and lose his job. The press, at the time, described a precedent where a man had been using a stamp to put a protest message on notes. Importantly, he kept doing it after he was asked to stop. The man was charged and found guilty. No proof, so this is a comment.... | |
| Aug 12, 2011 at 20:42 | comment | added | Chad | You need to look at counterfeiting charges it happens there quite regularly(as regularly as counterfieters go anyway which isnt very). People wash the ink from a 1 or 5 and then print a 20 or 100 on the paper. Police have discretion what the charge and even investigate. And since in the US this is a federal crime it falls to the secret service(Department of the Treasury). There is little to be gained by investigating doodles or stamps on bills that do not change the overal. So long as the defacement does not intend to commit fraud its just let go. | |
| Aug 12, 2011 at 8:44 | comment | added | going | @Sklivvz - It's quite common for people to say don't draw on money because its illegal, but if it is so illegal, why hasn't anyone been charged? | |
| Aug 12, 2011 at 8:13 | comment | added | Sklivvz | What is the claim here? Is it notable? | |
| Aug 12, 2011 at 0:51 | answer | added | Moab | timeline score: 10 | |
| Aug 11, 2011 at 23:32 | history | asked | going | CC BY-SA 3.0 |