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18 U.S.C. § 488 — Making or possessing counterfeit dies for foreign coins

submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 108 words · no verdicts yet

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It's a federal crime to make, without authority, a die, hub, or mold copying the tools used to coin genuine foreign money. It's also a crime to possess or hide such a die, hub, or mold, or knowingly let it be used to counterfeit foreign coins. Violators can be fined or imprisoned up to five years, or both.

This law bans two things involving tools for making foreign coins, when done inside the United States. First, it's a crime, without lawful authority, to make a die, hub, or mold (or any part of one) — of steel, plaster, or any other substance — that copies the design or inscription of a genuine die, hub, or mold used to coin the real coins of any foreign government. Second, it's a crime, without lawful authority, to possess such a die, hub, or mold, to conceal it, or to knowingly let it be used to counterfeit foreign coins. Anyone convicted can be fined under the general federal fine rules, or imprisoned for up to five years, or both.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Whoever, within the United States, without lawful authority, makes any die, hub, or mold, or any part thereof, either of steel or of plaster, or of any other substance, in the likeness or similitude, as to the design or the inscription thereon, of any die, hub, or mold designated for the coining of the genuine coin of any foreign government; or

Whoever, without lawful authority, possesses any such die, hub, or mold, or any part thereof, or conceals, or knowingly suffers the same to be used for the counterfeiting of any foreign coin—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five 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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