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Offences against the Coin

Danger of punishing coiners more than Robbers the reasons that have been given more particularly so
with this; insomuch that it might be worth while to
incur some hazard in thethis experiment for the sake of
trying the efficacy of such milder remedies: I mean that
hazard, whatever it might be, which might be incurred for by
reducing, for a time at least, the punishment of coining
to a level with that of theft. I do not say that any
difference in point of punishment will bring back robbers
and convert them into coiners; but it may prevent
coiners from rising being corrupted into robbers. Now though nothing
is less true than that any robber will do for a coiner, yet
almost any Coiner will do for a robber.

(one thing it is true is to be considered) on the other
side that in general a thief or sharper or a robber who has
followed any of these occupations for a length of time
cannot of himself turn to anything else: so that he has
nothing left for it but to go on in the track he is in till he is

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	073	Main Headings	law in general
Folio number	031	Info in main headings field	offences against the coin
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f45 / f46 / f47 / f48
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23871
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