Buying things with Cinema money? Illegal?

If you present an instrument (e.g. cinema money, monopoly money, etc) as if it were US currency in an attempt to buy something or pay off a debt, it's call counterfeiting. It's not the other person's responsibility to recognize that your counterfeit money was counterfeit (even if it looks nothing like real money).

edit: after looking at your link from Amazon, you would definitely face charges.

What they're selling is illegal. It's counterfeit. The treasure department has a rather extreme position on this. You can't have anything that resembles real money in any way. If you look at monopoly money, it's much smaller and has strange colors.

Either the picture isn't what you going to get, or maybe the treasury department hasn't seen it yet.

If you bought this and you got something that looked like real money, you would have already committed a crime. If you tried to spend the money, that would be a second offense.

The treasury department has no sense of humor.

You could and would be charged with passing a counterfeit instrument.

Trying to say that the store accepting t would be to blame is moronic. The cashier would only be fired at most, but you would have a federal felony, and will do some hard time.

er, if it looks like US currency you'll get a visit from the FBI real quick, whether the cashier takes it or not. If it's obvious play money, like colored mini size monopoly money or foreign currency, then the cashier will shoot you down and it would be their stupidity for taking it otherwise. Some towns have local currency, that is widely accepted, trying to use it in another town wouldn't be illegal, but wouldn't work either.