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Crimes (Currency) Act 1981

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#### 17 Selling defaced coins or paper money A person shall not sell or offer to sell a coin or paper money that is lawfully current in Australia and that has been defaced, disfigured or mutilated, knowing it to have been defaced, disfigured or mutilated. Penalty: (a) in the case of a person, not being a body corporate—imprisonment for 2 years or 50 penalty units, or both; or (b) in the case of a person, being a body corporate—100 penalty units.

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