Treason Act 1488

	Parliament of England
Long title	An Acte agaynst counterfeting of forrayne Coyne.
Citation	4 Hen. 7. c. 18
Other legislation
Repealed by	England and Wales: Statute Law Revision Act 1863; Ireland: Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872;
Status: Repealed

An Acte agaynst counterfeting of forrayne Coyne (4 Hen. 7. c. 18) was an Act of the Parliament of England passed in 1488. It made it high treason to counterfeit coinage from other countries. (It was already treason to counterfeit English coins, under the Treason Act 1351.) It was repealed by the Treason Act 1553,[1] but another Act passed later in the same year recreated the offence.[2]

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