Is it illegal to print money for entertainment ? or doing art?

Question

Ok so In my job I found like a puzzle or idk what, of the empire state, or some NY building I believe, 1.3 meters tall when assembled made of thick paper, it has money printed on it, so it looked cool I thought so I bought it for $1. But the printing looks not exactly money like, it's kind of fuzzy the money printed on it, and Idea occurred to me, so what if I scan real money and throw a bunch of it on the scanner and print it on sticky paper and just use that instead so it looks very real, I'm not printing individual money, but a bunch on one 8 by 11 regular paper with the purpose of entertainment, is this legal ? or what, I just wanna put it on my room lol

Answer 1

This boils down to how realistic the money looks, and whether you are actually trying to make items which you will attempt to pass off as legitimate money.



For instance, there's slips of paper in every Monopoly game, which have denominations on them. They can't possibly be mistaken for real money. And I know of an artist who draws very realistic looking money, but he does things like change up the portraits, so that it won't be mistaken for real money.



If you're trying to do this for artistic purposes, I'd advise you to put a watermark across each bill, saying something like "NOT legal tender", in order to avoid legal difficulties.



For a bit of amusement, you might want to get a magnifying lens and closely examine some bills. They are truly works of art.

Answer 2

Only if it is not the actual size of a bill.



Yours is money art, which is art that incorporates currency designs or themes. Some of these works of art are similar enough to actual bills that their legality is in question. While a counterfeit is made with deceptive intent, money art is not - however, the law may or may not differentiate between the two. See JSG Boggs, the American artist best known for his hand-drawn, one-sided copies of US banknotes which he sells for the face value of the note.

Answer 3

The Counterfeit Detection Act of 1992, Public Law 102-550, in Section 411 of Title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations, permits color illustrations of U.S. currency provided:



The illustration is of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of the item illustrated



The illustration is one-sided



All negatives, plates, positives, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices, and any other thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof are destroyed and/or deleted or erased after their final use

Answer 4

Counterfeiting is the printing of fake money with the intent to defraud.



If you are printing what amounts to wallpaper (super realistic on one side, but blank and sticky on the other), then there is no crime being committed.... as long as you don't try to pass it off as real money.

Answer 5

Most printers nowadays will sense if you're trying to print money, and will stop the print job halfway.

That's why bills you see printed are significantly altered to be recognizable as 'not money'

Answer 6

Of course it's legal. If you explain to the cops what you are doing then they will understand. The law has not become that mechanical these days. Also you can buy fake money at the dollar store I have seen it.

Answer 7

If you don't try to buy anything with it u can make yourself richer than Donald trump

Answer 8

Yes very illegal