Article 236 Federal Criminal Code

A prison sentence of five to twelve years and up to five hundred days fine shall be imposed on whoever alters currency. The same sanction shall be imposed on whoever knowingly circulates altered currency.

For the effects of this article, it is understood that a person alters a banknote who forms pieces by joining two or more fractions coming from different banknotes, and that a person alters a metal coin who diminishes the content of gold, silver, platinum or palladium that composes the monetary pieces of legal tender, by means of filings, cuttings, dissolution in acids or employing any other means.