CODE OF VIRGINIA

FORGING COIN OR BANK NOTES (§ 18.2-170)

If any person (1) forge any coin, note or bill current by law or usage in this
Commonwealth or any note or bill of a banking company, (2) fraudulently make any
base coin, or a note or bill purporting to be the note or bill of a banking
company, when such company does not exist, or (3) utter, or attempt to employ as
true, or sell, exchange, or deliver, or offer to sell, exchange, or deliver, or
receive on sale, exchange, or delivery, with intent to utter or employ, or to
have the same uttered or employed as true, any such false, forged, or base coin,
note or bill, knowing it to be so, he shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-94; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.