Federal · Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

18 U.S.C. § 486: Uttering coins of gold, silver or other metal

Felony

What this law says, in plain English

Making, uttering, or passing counterfeit or unauthorized metal coins intended as currency is prohibited and punishable by fine and/or imprisonment up to five years.

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Whoever, except as authorized by law, makes or utters or passes, or attempts to utter or pass, any coins of gold or silver or other metal, or alloys of metals, intended for use as current money, whether in the resemblance of coins of the United States or of foreign countries, or of original design, shall be fined under this title 1 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. 1 See 1994 Amendment note below.

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