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Originally posted by Archer
Hey Bruce - did you forget it's illegal to alter currency?
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Sure you can! As long as your purpose is not to make one type of currency look like another. You are perfectly free to write on it, tear it up and tape it back together. Now if you deface it too much, your local store will look at you funny and might not accept it. You can take two quarters, split them in half, and attach the obverse of each back to back making a double headed coin. That might invalidate it from being legal tender, but it won't put you in the slammer.
I remember a friend that used to intentionally pull out the polyester security filament that was imbedded in the bill. Its still legal money! A store has the right to deny it because it has been defaced (if they notice), but a bank would examine it and give you a replacement
Now if you try to cut one corner off each of 4 hundred dollar bills then attach the 4 corners to a dollar bill and try to pass it off as a c-note, then I would say you are bucking for a few years of ass poking at a federal pound me in the ass prision.