this is one of those “urban myths”. that your not allowed to use pennies to make something. heres some other “legal urban myths”…
1) “common law marriage”. “You know, you and your girlfriend are legally MARRIED, you’ve been living together for 7 years!” “Oh, i heard that was down to 5 years now in this state…” People on TV like newscasters? Know nothing about the law, and when they say “Bob Bobbers, and his common law wife…” what they MEANT to say, 99 percent of the time? is “Bob Bobbers and his live-together-arrangement girlfriend.”
2) “if you have a license to carry a concealed firearm? you shoudl NEVER carry handloaded ammo, only FACTORY ROUNDS… some prosecutor could claim you were trying to make more deadly ammo!” The truth? Its another legal urban myth that got repeated so many times, it isnt even funny. Its NEVER ONCE been a deciding issue in ANY self defense case, ever.
One more time, though i KNOW some of you wont believe me? DEFACING coins? Is a specific legal term. The coin itself has a “FACE VALUE”, which is what its worth… de-FACING the coin? Means trying to alter the coin to spend it as a higher value coin. “MELT-ing” a coin? Another specific legal term. It means MELTING to make a profit on the value of it.
People for some reason, love to say sagely then “well, you know, its best to be on the safe side… you dont want to take the chance…”
can anyone show a single case of someone making a necklace, or making anything else out of a penny, and was prosecuted for it, let alone convicted?
As far as “hoarding” being illegal? if it was at all enforced, no coin collector would be allowed to save up silver coins or anything else… and it would be illegal to SELL silver coins and copper pennies…. because if you had a bunch to sell saved up? You were obviously HOARDING them…
I’m allowed to save up all the pennies i feel like saving up… and you are definitely allowed to make a heat sink out of one if you want to. Me? I used copper pennies to make a copper shelf in a hollow pill, worked great.
we all know penny arcades all have the “squish the penny into a necklace” machines… we all know they make jewelry…. but, can anyone saying “its better not to try it…” demonstrate a SINGLE case?