Section 13
SEC. 13. Every person who, except as authorized by law, makes or causes to be made, or niters or passes, or attempts to utter or pass, any coins of gold or silver or other metal, or alloys of metals, intended for the use and purpose of current money, whether in the resemblance of coins of the United States or of the Philippine Islands, or of foreign countries, or of original design, shall be punished by a fine of not more than six thousand pesos or by imprisonment for not more than five years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.