for unlawful use any counterfeit or spurious currency, obligation, security, or other article, or anything represented to be or intimated or held out to be such counterfeit or spurious article, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 5 years, or in the house of correction for not more than 2 1/2 years, or both. of The informati