 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                 CHAPTER 25--COUNTERFEITING AND FORGERY
 
Sec. 473. Dealing in counterfeit obligations or securities

    Whoever buys, sells, exchanges, transfers, receives, or delivers any 
false, forged, counterfeited, or altered obligation or other security of 
the United States, with the intent that the same be passed, published, 
or used as true and genuine, shall be fined under this title or 
imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 705; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, 
Sec. 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 268 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 
321, Sec. 154, 35 Stat. 1117).
    Reference to circulating notes of banking associations was omitted 
as covered by definition of obligation or other security in section 8 of 
this title.
    Changes in phraseology were made.


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-322 substituted ``fined under this title'' for 
``fined not more than $5,000''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 14, 470, 981, 982, 1961, 
2516 of this title.
