254. Delivery of coin as genuine, which when first possessed, deliverer did not know to be altered

Whoever -

delivers to any person as genuine. or as a coin of a different description from what it is; or

attempts to induce any person to receive as genuine, or as a different coin from what it is, any coin in respect of which he knows that any such operation as that mentioned in section 247 or 249 has been performed, but in respect of which he did not, at the time when he took it into his possession, know what such operation had been performed, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or fine to an amount not exceeding ten times the value of the coin for which the altered coin is passed or attempted to be passed.