2010 Code of Virginia
Title 18.2 - CRIMES AND OFFENSES GENERALLY.
Chapter 6 - Crimes Involving Fraud (18.2-168 thru 18.2-246.15)
18.2-234 - Sale of goods marked "coin" and "coin silver.".
§ 18.2-234. Sale of goods marked "coin" and "coin silver.".
A person who makes or sells or offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any article of merchandise marked, stamped or branded with words "coin" or "coin silver," or encased or enclosed in any box, package, cover, wrapper or other thing in or by which such article is packed, enclosed, or otherwise prepared for sale or disposition, having thereon any engraving or printed label, stamp, imprint, mark or trademark indicating or denoting by such marking, stamping, branding, engraving or printing that such article is coin or coin silver, unless nine hundred one-thousandths part of the component parts of the metal of which such article is manufactured is pure silver, shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.
(Code 1950, § 59.1-63; 1968, c. 439; 1975, cc. 14, 15.)
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