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#4824 - 09/21/01 12:02 PM Currency in Advertising
Anonymous
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Are there any regulations that prohibit the utilization of currency (replica of a dollar bill) in advertising, e.g. oversized on a billboard.

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#4825 - 09/21/01 12:24 PM Re: Currency in Advertising
Eric Offline
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Eric
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 28
Portland, Maine
Illustrations of Currency must be less than .75 or greater than 1.5 times actual size

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#4826 - 09/21/01 07:13 PM Re: Currency in Advertising
Mary Beth Guard Offline
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Mary Beth Guard
Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 797
Oklahoma City, OK
If you need to actually cite the specific statute (18 U.S.C. 504) or get more detail, the citation and complete verbiage are set forth on this part of the Bureau of Printing & Engraving's site:

Reproducing Currency


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#4827 - 09/24/01 06:39 PM Re: Currency in Advertising
Anonymous
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Thanks so much for your responses. They gave me exactly what I was searching for.

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