West Virginia Code § 61-4-3

Counterfeiting; penalty
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If any person forge any coin, current by law or usage in this state, or any note or bill of a
banking institution, or fraudulently make any base coin, or a note or bill purporting to be the
note or bill of a banking institution, when such banking institution does not exist; or 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 toe 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 deemed guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction, shallr be confined in the
penitentiary not less than two nor more than ten years.

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