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Jon Danniken
 
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Default recycling scrap gold

"Jeff R" wrote:
"mewthree" wrote:
does anybody know if it is ok to make my own coins. ie bank of paul

taylor? just for fun.


Sure.
Go for your life.
They'll be "tokens" however, not "coins".

So problem so long as you don't deliberately make them similar to legal
tender - either visually or to fool a vending machine.


Well, you can deliberately make them to be nearly exactly like the real
thing, so long as you let people know that they are your own creation when
you try and "cash" them..

http://reason.com/0010/fe.jw.the.shtml
http://www.gwu.edu/~dimock/boggs.html

Jon