Generally you should rely on the plain meaning of the text in the statutes and regulations, as well as on general construction canons. Is this accurate? Given the nature of 'anyone with a computer and browser can edit' I'm somewhat skeptical of wikipedia for these types of issues.Ī brief exploration of the statutory sources you provided may help. Wikipedia states that these novelty bills are legal because no 'real' bill of that denomination exists. Is it merely due to the clear 'novelty' aspect which allows them to come closer to real currency? After all, there's no real 'million dollar bill' so clearly it can't be legitimate currency. How do these novelty currency bills get away with ignoring the reproduction size restrictions? In addition to being two sided? However, clearly the novelty bills don't follow the size restrictions above (they are the same size as real currency). Title 18, United States Code, Section 504 permits black and white reproductions of currency and other obligations, provided such reproductions meet the size requirement.

All negatives, plates, 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 shall be destroyed and or deleted or erased after their final use in accordance with this section.The illustration must be one sided and.

The illustration must be of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of any matter so illustrated.Section 411 of Title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations permits the printing, publishing or importation, or the making or importation of the necessary plates or items for such printing or publication, of color illustrations of U.S. I am aware of US Legislation regarding reproduction which states:Īuthority: The Counterfeit Detection Act of 1992, Public Law 102-550 So, to this end, the artwork needs to closely resemble a real bill, but be different enough to be legal and not seen as counterfeit. The end goal is not to reproduce currency accurately, but to trick the reader into thinking it's currency at first glance. It is merely something Google found as an example) Similar to those fake novelty bills you can purchase.

I've been asked to create artwork for a mock US currency bill.

Printable real money 2 sided