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The monopoly of the metal currency has had
in this country one constant object or at least result the guarding
the individual against loss by fraud in those to
half that is by the substitution of pieces of less inferior
value to those of the value indicated by exterior appearance.
It has at times in this country and
regularly at all times in several other countries had the farther object
of producing a profit to government.