Punishment for selling medals resembling current coin

Every person who, without due authority or excuse (the proof whereof shall lie on the person accused) makes or has in his possession for sale, offers for sale, or sells, any medal, cast coin, or other like thing made wholly or partially of metal or any metallic combination and resembling in size, figure and colour any current coin, or having thereon a device resembling any device on any current coin, or being so formed that it can by gilding, silvering, colouring washing or other like process, be so dealt with as to resemble any current coin, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on being convicted, shall be liable on 132 conviction either on indictment or summarily to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding one year.