Explanation

(1) A person possesses or does any act with respect to a document knowing the same not to be genuine, if he possesses it, or does such act with respect to it, knowing that it was not in fact made or altered at the time, or by the person, or with the authority or consent of the person, at which or by whom, or with whose authority or consent, it purports or is pretended by him to have been made or altered, and in such case it is immaterial whether the act of the person who made or altered it was or was not a crime. (2) In like manner a person possesses or does any act with respect to a stamp or current coin knowing the same not to be genuine, if he possesses it or does such act with respect to it knowing that it is in fact counterfeit or falsified, and in such case it is immaterial whether the act of the person who counterfeited or falsified it was or was not a crime.