Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (CURRENCY) ACT 1981 - SECT 17

                   A person shall not sell or offer to sell a coin or paper money that is lawfully current in Australia and that has been defaced, disfigured or mutilated, knowing it to have been defaced, disfigured or mutilated.

Penalty:

                     (a)  in the case of a person, not being a body corporate--$5,000 or imprisonment for 2 years, or both; or

                     (b)  in the case of a person, being a body corporate--$10,000.