Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Part I · Chapter 25 — Counterfeiting and Forgery
§ 490. Minor coins
Statutory text
Whoever falsely makes, forges, or counterfeits any coin in the resemblance or similitude of any of the one-cent and 5-cent coins minted at the mints of the United States; or
Whoever passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or brings into the United States, or possesses any such false, forged, or counterfeited coin, with intent to defraud any person, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 80–645 · 62 Stat. 683
Enacted · 18 U.S.C. § 490
June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 709
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 709Pub. L. 98–216 § 3(b)(1) · 98 Stat. 3
Substituted · 18 U.S.C. § 490
Pub. L. 98–216 substituted “one-cent and 5-cent coins minted” for “minor coins coined”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 98–216 substituted “one-cent and 5-cent coins minted” for “minor coins coined”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) In section 490, strike out “minor coins coined” and substitute “one-cent and 5-cent coins minted”.Effective date note
Pub. L. 98–216, § 4(c), Feb. 14, 1984, 98 Stat. 7, provided that: “The amendments made by sections 1(3), (4), and (7) and 3(b)(1) of this Act [amending this section and sections 3322, 3528, and 5132 of Title 31, Money and Finance] are effective as of September 13, 1982.”Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
Pub. L. 103–322 title XXXIII § 330016(1)(H) · 108 Stat. 1796
Substituted · 18 U.S.C. § 490
Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $1,000”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $1,000”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(H) in sections 81, 210, 211, 215, 217, 242, 245, 291, 292, 439, 442, 480, 483, 484, 490, 491, 494, 495, 503, 507, 510, 594, 595, 596, 597, 598, 599, 604, 605, 641, 643, 645, 646, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 654, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 661, 662, 665, 712, 751, 752, 756, 795, 796, 797, 836, 844, 871, 875, 876, 877, 879, 911, 912, 913, 924, 957, 959, 961, 1003, 1012, 1021, 1025, 1026, 1071, 1112, 1163, 1262, 1263, 1264, 1301, 1302, 1304, 1306, 1341, 1342, 1343, 1361, 1363, 1384, 1504, 1508, 1509, 1657, 1705, 1706, 1707, 1711, 1715, 1716, 1733, 1738, 1761, 1762, 2276, 2277, 2278, 2382, and 2389 by striking “not more than $1,000” each place it appears and inserting “under this title”;
2 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Notes
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 278 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 164, 35 Stat. 1119).
Reference to persons causing, procuring, aiding or assisting was omitted as unnecessary as such persons are made principals by section 2 of this title.
Mandatory punishment provision was rephrased in the alternative.
Changes were made in phraseology.
Editorial Notes
Amendments1984–1994 · 2 rounds
1994
Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $1,000”.
1984
Pub. L. 98–216 substituted “one-cent and 5-cent coins minted” for “minor coins coined”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1984 Amendment
Pub. L. 98–216, § 4(c), , 98 Stat. 7, provided that: “The amendments made by sections 1(3), (4), and (7) and 3(b)(1) of this Act [amending this section and sections 3322, 3528, and 5132 of Title 31, Money and Finance] are effective as of .”
Credits
1948–1994 · 3 acts
- 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 709
- 1984Pub. L. 98–216, § 3(b)(1), , 98 Stat. 6
- 1994Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H), , 108 Stat. 2147.
Show as published
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 709; Pub. L. 98–216, § 3(b)(1), , 98 Stat. 6; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H), , 108 Stat. 2147.)