Article 237 Federal Criminal Code

Whoever provides his services or performs a charge or commission in the mint or in any company that manufactures coin blanks, and who by any means causes the coins of gold, silver, platinum or palladium to contain metal different from that established by the law, or to have less weight than the legal one or a lower alloy law, shall be punished with a prison sentence of five to twelve years and up to five hundred days fine.