Will be punished by a prison term of one to five years, those who have introduced, manufactures, employee or inmate, without authorization of the machines, appliances, instruments or other objects intended by their measure to the coloring, to the alteration of currencies or in the manufacture of false currencies. The false currencies as well as the instruments or objects referred to in the preceding subparagraph shall be seized and confiscated. 26 ART 122.- The subscription, the emission or the putting into circulation of means of payment having to object to supplement or replace the monetary signs being legal tender, will be punished by a prison term of one to five years and a fine of 1 00,000 to 1,000,000 francs, or only one of these two penalties. The means of payment commitments, issued or put into circulation unlike the prohibitions of this article, will be seized by the agents authorized to see the offenses. Their confiscation will be pronounced by the court. ART.123.- The persons guilty of the facts mentioned in the article 1 1 8, will be exempted from penalty if, before the consumption of these facts and before any prosecution, they have given knowledge and reveals the authors to the constituted authorities or if even after the prosecution commenced, they provided the arrest of other guilty parties. Paragraph 2 . Counterfeiting of seals of the State, of the effects and punches, stamps and marks. ART.124.- those who have forged the seal of the State or made use of the counterfeit seal. Those who have forged or falsified or effects issued by the public treasury with its stamp or mark, either tickets to bank authorized by the act or the tickets of the same nature issued by the treasury or which have made use of these effects, counterfeit or forged or that have introduced on the Comorian territory. Will be punished the work forces in perpetuity. The counterfeit seals and the effects counterfeit or forged will be entrusted and destroyed.