18 U.S.C. § 486
Uttering coins of gold, silver or other metal
Whoever, except as authorized by law, makes or utters or passes, or attempts to utter or pass, any coins of gold or silver or other metal, or alloys of metals, intended for use as current money, whether in the resemblance of coins of the United States or of foreign countries, or of original design, shall be fined under this title 1
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5
cases, 1928–1981 · leading case: United States v. Barney A. Gertz, Owner of 3,827 Coins Being Likenesses of the 1847 'Hapa Haneri' Issued by the Hawaiian Gov't, 249 F.2d 662 (9th Cir. 1957).
United States v. Barney A. Gertz, Owner of 3,827 Coins Being Likenesses of the 1847 'Hapa Haneri' Issued by the Hawaiian Gov't, 249 F.2d 662 (9th Cir. 1957). “Any person who would make a coin in the likeness or similitude of a coin of the former Kingdom of Hawaii, for the purpose of paying government dues or obtaining, in exchange, coins of the United States, would intend such coins “for use as current money,” within the meaning of 18…”
United States v. H. Coleman Yeatts, 639 F.2d 1186 (5th Cir. 1981). “*1190 Title 18 U.S.C.A. § 486 prohibits the making, uttering or passing of any coins made of gold, silver, or any other metal or alloy of metals “intended for use as current money.”
United States v. Harvey Ray Hatcher, 423 F.2d 1086 (5th Cir. 1970). “INGRAHAM, Circuit Judge: Harvey Ray Hatcher, Defendant-Appellant, was tried in the Northern District of Texas and appeals his jury *1088 conviction for unlawfully, willfully and knowingly uttering metal coins in the resemblance of coins of the United States, in violation of…”
Anchorage Centennial Dev. Co. v. Van Wormer & Rodrigues, Inc., 443 P.2d 596 (Alaska 1968). “The first of these sections, 18 U.S.C.A. § 486 (1948) provides that: Whoever, except as authorized by law, makes or utters or passes, or attempts to utter or pass, any coins of gold or silver or other metal, or alloys of metals, intended for use as current money, whether in the…”
Kirk v. United States ex rel. Lawrenson, 24 F.2d 64 (5th Cir. 1928). “§ 5363 (18 USCA § 486), which punishes the master of any vessel who without cause intentionally leaves a seaman in a foreign port, and section 8 of the Immigration Act of 1917 (8 USCA § 144), which punishes the bringing into the United States of an alien not duly admitted.”
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