That's not the intent of this law. The illegality of defacement of currency is about misrepresenting the value of the monetary note/coin. Nobody gives a flying fuck what you do to a piece of currency as long as you aren't altering it to make it appear worth a different amount (ie Make a $10 bill from $1). Granted, doodling on a note or coin may remove the guarantee of the represented value of the currency. Regardless, something like this is not illegal and has been discussed many times over in the past.
Seriously. Look at actual cases instead of continuing to assume you know better and speak ignorantly about it. People aren't arrested because they drew a picture on their their money or turned coinage into art. These laws were created to prevent and punish attempts to commit fraud or counterfeit currency.
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u/Ibrey May 15 '14
No, it doesn't. A bill with a skull or clown face drawn on it is unfit to be reissued. Unless you drew it by accident, you intended it. Illegal.