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Offline homersipes

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coin furniture
« on: November 29, 2012, 04:09:32 PM »
went to a guys shot to check on a heat pump system this morning and he makes furniture out of coins.  One of his workers was upstairs welding them together.  talk about ALOT ALOT of spot welding!! :O :O anyways thought some of you might find it interesting heres a link

http://www.johnnyswing.com/
I sat in the half dollar  "butterfly" chair, it is surprinsingly comortable so I asked him what it cost, and he said somewhere around 80k :O :O
he has sold quite a few of them. 

Offline smoe

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Re: coin furniture
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2012, 06:59:47 PM »
lol, damaging US coins might not be legal.

Offline quig

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Re: coin furniture
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2012, 12:21:37 PM »
Quote from: § 333. Mutilation of National Bank Obligations
CHAPTER 17 - COINS AND CURRENCY

Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
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