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18 U.S.C. § 487 — Making or possessing counterfeit dies for coins

submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 121 words · no verdicts yet

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It's a federal crime to make, without authority, a die, hub, or mold designed to look like the real tools used to coin U.S. money. It's also a crime to possess such a die, hub, or mold, or to let it be used to counterfeit coins. Violators can be fined or imprisoned up to fifteen years, or both.

This law bans two things involving the tools used to make coins. First, it's a crime, without lawful authority, to make a die, hub, or mold (or any part of one) — made of steel, plaster, or any other substance — that copies the design or inscription of a genuine die, hub, or mold used to coin any of the United States' gold, silver, nickel, bronze, copper, or other coins at the U.S. mints. Second, it's a crime, without lawful authority, to possess such a die, hub, or mold (or any part of one), or to let it be used to help counterfeit U.S. coins. Anyone convicted can be fined under the general federal fine rules, or imprisoned for up to fifteen years, or both.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Whoever, without lawful authority, makes any die, hub, or mold, or any part thereof, either of steel or plaster, or any other substance, in likeness or similitude, as to the design or the inscription thereon, of any die, hub, or mold designated for the coining or making of any of the genuine gold, silver, nickel, bronze, copper, or other coins coined at the mints of the United States; or

Whoever, without lawful authority, possesses any such die, hub, or mold, or any part thereof, or permits the same to be used for or in aid of the counterfeiting of any such coins of the United States—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than fifteen years, or both.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 709; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 709
  • 1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 2147

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 645 on 1948-06-25.

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