IPC Section 254 - Delivery of coin as genuine which, when first possessed, the deliver er did not know to be

254. Delivery of coin as genuine which, when first possessed, the deliver er did not know to be

altered.--Whoever delivers to any other person as genuine or as a coin of a different description from

what it is, or attempts to induce any person to receive as genuine, or as a different coin from what it is,

any coin in respect of which he knows that any such operation as that mentioned in sections 246, 247, 248

or 249 has been performed, but in respect of which he did not, at the time when he took it into his

possession, know that such operation had been performed, shall be punished wit h imprisonment of either

description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine to an amount which may extend to ten

times the value of the coin for which the altered coin is passed, or attempted to be passed.