2C:21-2. Criminal Simulation.

  A person commits a crime of the fourth degree if, with purpose to defraud anyone or with knowledge that he is facilitating a fraud to be perpetrated by anyone, he makes, alters or utters any object so that it appears to have value because of antiquity, rarity, source, or authorship which it does not possess.

     L.1978, c. 95, s. 2C:21-2, eff. Sept. 1, 1979.