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 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 deemed guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction, shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than ten years.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 61. Crimes and Their Punishment
Article 4. Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency
§61-4-1. Forgery of Public Record, Certificate, Return or Attestation of Court or Officer; Penalty
§61-4-2. Forgery of Official Seals; Keeping or Concealing Instrument for Forging Same; Penalty
§61-4-3. Counterfeiting; Penalty
§61-4-4. Making Plates, etc., for Forgery; Possession of Same; Penalty
§61-4-5. Forging or Uttering Other Writing; Penalty; Creation of Unauthorized Demand Draft
§61-4-6. Possession of Counterfeit With Intent to Utter; Penalty
§61-4-7. Unauthorized Currency; Penalty
§61-4-8. Passing or Receiving Unauthorized Currency Knowingly; Penalty
§61-4-9. Unauthorized Use, Transfer, Acquisition, Alteration or Possession of Certain Benefits