Indian Penal Code
IPC 230 is now BNS 178(2).
“Coin” defined · BNS 178 brings it together with IPC 231, 232, 246, 247, 248, 249, 255 and 489A. BNS 178 is new, with no IPC counterpart.
Merged
16% of the old wording kept
Old · IPC 1860 · Ch. XII
s. 230
“Coin” defined
2[Coin is metal used for the time being as money, and stamped and issued by the authority of some State or Sovereign Power in order to be so used.] 3[Indian coin.—Indian coin is metal stamped and issued by the authority of the Government of India in order to be used as money; and metal which has been so stamped and issued shall continue to be Indian coin for the purposes of this Chapter, notwithstanding that it may have ceased to be used as money.]
Illustrations
(a) Cowries are not coin.
(b) Lumps of unstamped copper, though used as money, are not coin.
(c) Medals are not coin, inasmuch as they are not intended to be used as money.
(d) The coin denominated as the Company's rupee is 4[Indian coin].
5[(e) The “Farukhabad rupee”, which was formerly used as money under the authority of the Government of India, is 6[Indian coin] although it is no longer so used.]
Text from the official India Code PDF
New · BNS 2023 · Ch. X
s. 178(2)of section 178
Counterfeiting coin, Government stamps, currency-notes or bank-notes.
(2) “coin” shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in section 2 of the Coinage Act, 2011 (11 of 2011) and includes metal used for the time being as money and is stamped and issued by or under the authority of any State or Sovereign Power intended to be so used;
Text from India Code