Yes, it is so...
he was railed over the night before last...
trying to hop a train and tramp his way back home...
free and fast.
and did you all know
{as I had to do some research on coin defacement myself}
that a coin used as art is okay to wear and show.
It is illegal to deface U.S. coinage in a "fraudulent" manner. Therefore, as long as you are not doing it to commit fraud {trying to use the coins as legal tender after being altered}, then it is perfectly legal.
Coin jewelry has probably been around since the first minting of coins. Wearing coin jewelry goes back farther than diamonds. In ancient times it was a status symbol, proving wealth and power.
Coin jewelry today lends a certain mystique, a romance that stems from coins as a link to the past. With their dates and pictures, coins imply a linkage to a particular country, a specific event or a certain era.
Coins are bevelled, linked, soldered and mounted into jewelry. Coins are available as pendants, rings, cuff links, money clips, key chains, bracelets and belts. Both gold and silver are available tin jewelry, as well as coins combined with diamonds and colored gemstones.
Among the most popular coin jewelry styles are those featuring the American Eagle, Indian, Liberty and Double Eagle head, South African Krugerrands, Canadian Maple Leaf, and the Mexican Peso.
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.
That being said let us get to the more urgent news, shall we...
like I was telling you, we found {rather placed} over 200 pennies randomly the railroad tracks last weekend...
{we dapped them domed them planished them and punched them}
First we looked for information at the Federal Railroad Administration to learn more about questionable shenanigans and if there was any way pennies could derail a 1,000 ton train off its tracks, and we found out that this is
absolutely not possible,
yet a large cow or vehicle could get the speeding bullet curbing off its rails.
So we pursued this new venture with gusto and went far out onto the prairie field where no one could get side blinded by a flying penny, holy crap- that would hurt...
The train ran through late that night, thundering through the worst electrical storm we had this season, so needles to say these pennies are infused with great energy!
{See you in the Wind}
