Text of the provision
Art. 163. Making and importing and uttering false coins - Any person who make, imports, or utters false coins, in connivance with counterfeiters, or importers, shall suffer: 1. Prisión correccional in its minimum and medium periods and a fine not to exceed Four hundred thousand pesos (₱400,000), if the counterfeited coins be any of the coinage of the Philippines. 2. Prisión correccional in its minimum period and a fine not to exceed Two hundred thousand pesos (₱200,000), if the counterfeited coin be currency of a foreign country.
Revised Penal Code of the Philippines, Act No. 3815, as amended. Reproduced in full from the official enactment and verified against the LawPhil and ChanRobles renderings.
What this article means
Making, importing or passing off counterfeit coins in connivance with counterfeiters or importers is punished by prisión correccional in its minimum and medium periods and a fine not to exceed Four hundred thousand pesos (₱400,000) where the fake coin is Philippine coinage, and by prisión correccional in its minimum period and a fine not to exceed Two hundred thousand pesos (₱200,000) where it is foreign currency.
Related provisions
- Article 161 — Counterfeiting The Great Seal.
- Article 164 — Mutilation Of Coins.
Penalty amounts. The text above is the article as amended by Republic Act No. 10951 (2017), which revised the property values and fines throughout this Code. Older reproductions of the Revised Penal Code still print the 1930 amounts — for theft and estafa they show 12,000 and 22,000 pesos where the current figures run to millions. Check which version any source you rely on is giving you.
Cases interpreting this article
- Authorities on this article will be added here as each is verified against primary sources.