Whats the difference between counterfeiting and defacing a coin?
Whats the difference between counterfeiting and defacing a coin? Are they the same thing?
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counterfeiting is MAKING (illegal) money….defacing is marking or in some way wrecking or destroying legal tender
Counterfeiting is making a fake one. Defacing is damaging a real one. Both are illegal in most countries.
about 20 years in federal prison
If you manage to make a mold of a current legal coin and pour melted lead into it, you have counterfeited a coin.
If you hit a coin with a hammer, or imprint your initials on a current legal coin, you have defaced it……………….
Counterfeiting - making money, photocopying making your own
Defacing a coin/money - writing on money, cutting into coins.
Defacing is modifying it, for whatever reason, for coins or purposes other than malicious intent its not usually made a big deal of. Counterfeiting is the manufacturing of fake coins that will pass as being real.
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counterfeiting is making a fake and trying to pass it off as the real deal, defacing is well…defacing…its causing damage to the coin or bill. writing on it…painting on it…cutting it, whatever….
Counterfeiting is trying to create a duplicate an unauthorized copy, defacing is damagine the coin in any way, such as drilling a hole in, hammering it flat, etc.
Counterfeiting is to intentionally create something that you know is bogus, usually for capital gain.
Defacing something such as a coin, or anything else, is to change its appearance, which is considered damaging.
Counterfeiting is making a fake coin or bill.
Defacing a coin means making some kind of change to the appearance of a real coin. When you do this in one of those "souvenir penny" machines it’s legal because the intent of the defacing isn’t fraud. When you deface a coin to, say, fake out a vending machine, that’s when it becomes illegal.
Defacing a coin is to mar it from being used,to counterfeit is to have a copy of the legal tendor to spend and obtain services and goods with unreal money
counterfeiting is copying the coin
Counterfeiting the coin is using your toes to count them- Counter Feeting.
Making a poop on the coins is called defecating on coins.
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Counterfeiting is creating your own money and defacing is damaging money.
Counterfeiting a coin is making a copy to pass as real(illegal).
Defacing a coin is changing a coin that is real(legal).