Section 14 of the Act of 1969 is hereby amended by the substitution of the following for subsection (1):

"(1) Except coins issued under this Act, the Decimal Currency Act, 1990, and the Economic and Monetary Union Act, 1998, and coins denominated in euro or in cent and issued by one or more of the other participating Member States, no piece of metal or mixed metal of any purported nominal face value whatsoever shall be made or issued in the State as a coin or a token for money or as purporting (whether expressly or by implication) that the holder thereof is entitled to demand any value denoted thereon.".