Section 9
SEC. 9. Every person who falsely makes, forges, or counterfeits, or causes or procures to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited, or willingly aids or assists in falsely making, forging, or counterfeiting any coin or liars in resemblance or similitude of the gold or silver coins or bars which have been, or hereafter may be, coined or stamped at the mints and assay offices of the United States or of the Philippine Islands, or in resemblance or similitude of any foreign gold or silver coin which by law is, or hereafter may be, current in the United States or the Philippine Islands, or are in actual use and circulation as money within the United States or the Philippine Islands, or who passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or bring into the Philippine Islands from any outside place, knowing the same to be false, forged, or counterfeit, with intent to defraud any body politic or corporate, or any person or persons whatsoever, or has in his possession any such false, forged, or counterfeited coin or bars, knowing the same to be false, forced, or counterfeited, with intent to defraud any body politic or corporate, or any person or persons whatsoever, shall be punished by a hue of not more than ten thousand pesos and by imprisonment, for not more than ten years.