Shaun Hughes's Pop Culture Hobo Nickels


Spider-Man

Shaun Hughes is an artist in the UK who carves nickels, coins, and other metal tokens in the hobo nickel tradition. We've previously seen his nickel with the face of a Star Wars stormtrooper. Hughes is a highly productive artist, so he's made a lot more work. Here are some of his other pieces inspired by popular culture.


Yoda


Jessica Rabbit (?)


The Hulk


Frankenstein's monster


He's lucky he's in the UK. He'd be put in the pokey in the U.S. since defacing
American coins is illegal. Personally I think he's an idiot for destroying 1936 and 1930
coins that were a lot nicer to look at than his so called art.

(yeeeeech)
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I stand corrected, thank you. Fraud seems to be the crux of the law. However that so called artist could face jail if he simply brought those items into the U.S. since fraud is not mentioned regarding altered coins brougfht into the U.S. I found that difference to be pretty strange.

18 U.S. Code § 331 - Mutilation, diminution, and falsification of coins

Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints of the United States, or any foreign coins which are by law made current or are in actual use or circulation as money within the United States;
or

Whoever fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into the United States, any such coin, knowing the same to be altered, defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or lightened— Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
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