{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s489","title_num":"18","num":"§ 489.","heading":"Making or possessing likeness of coins","status":null,"guid":"idbbdd4927-4aa6-11eb-bce4-d6beeb6aa2d0","source_credit":"(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 709; July 16, 1951, ch. 226, § 3, 65 Stat. 122; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(B), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2146.)","seq_in_title":181,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI/ch25","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18","level":"title","num":"Title 18—","heading":"CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI","level":"part","num":"PART I—","heading":"CRIMES","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI/ch25","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 25—","heading":"COUNTERFEITING AND FORGERY","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id7463f3cb-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s489\"><num value=\"489\">§ 489.</num><heading> Making or possessing likeness of coins</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">Whoever, within the United States, makes or brings therein from any foreign country, or possesses with intent to sell, give away, or in any other manner uses the same, except under authority of the Secretary of the Treasury or other proper officer of the United States, any token, disk, or device in the likeness or similitude as to design, color, or the inscription thereon of any of the coins of the United States or of any foreign country issued as money, either under the authority of the United States or under the authority of any foreign government shall be fined under this title.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id7463f3cc-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">(<ref href=\"/us/act/1948-06-25/ch645\">June 25, 1948, ch. 645</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/62/709\">62 Stat. 709</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/act/1951-07-16/ch226/s3\">July 16, 1951, ch. 226, § 3</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/65/122\">65 Stat. 122</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/pl/103/322/tXXXIII/s330016/1/B\">Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(B)</ref>, <date date=\"1994-09-13\">Sept. 13, 1994</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/108/2146\">108 Stat. 2146</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id7463f3cd-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"historicalAndRevision\" id=\"id7463f3ce-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Historical and Revision Notes</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 285 (<ref href=\"/us/act/1909-03-04/ch321/s171\">Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 171</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/35/1121\">35 Stat. 1121</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/act/1912-02-15/ch38\">Feb. 15, 1912, ch. 38</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/37/64\">37 Stat. 64</ref>).</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Reference to persons causing or procuring was omitted as unnecessary in view of definition of “principal” in <ref href=\"/us/usc/t18/s2\">section 2 of this title</ref>.</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Changes were made in phraseology.</p>\n</note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" role=\"crossHeading\" topic=\"editorialNotes\" id=\"id7463f3cf-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered\"><b>Editorial Notes</b></heading></note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"amendments\" id=\"id7463f3d0-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Amendments</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">1994—<ref href=\"/us/pl/103/322\">Pub. L. 103–322</ref> substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $100”.</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">1951—Act <date date=\"1951-07-16\">July 16, 1951</date>, struck out “publisher’s illustrations excepted” in section catchline, struck out from text all language which could be interpreted to prohibit or restrict the making and printing of coin illustrations in magazines and other publications, and gave the Secretary of the Treasury the authority to make exceptions to the application of this section.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"116-214","currency_date":"2020-12-05","congress":116,"law_num":214,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":218,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","09","11a","15","16","18","18a","20","21","22","28a","31","37","38","39","40","41","51","52","54"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}