JB/087/165/004

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Indirect

Corpus delicti
Instructions

3. Coin

Frauds touching the coin

Standing Instructions ho teaching people how to distinguish
bad coin from good.

Occasional instructions giving notice pro re natâ of
the appearance of a particular parcel of bad coin as it happens
to make its appearance, and shewing how it is
to be distinguished from the true. Instructions of this
sort should immediately be stuck up against the
mint outside of the public mint, and circulated
by the post to be stuck up against every the doors
of churches, town houses and other public buildings
throughout the state: Notice of such instructions,
or the instructions themselves
if short, to should be also published
in the newspapers.
Where divers states,
bordering on each other, make use of the same coin,
communication should be made in like manner
from state to state.

In Vienna I am told, notification is made
regularly from the mint, whenever any bad counterfeit coin
makes its appearance. Qu whether this is ever
done in England
The coinage however is upon
so good a footing that such attempts are rare.

Were Had the mint of London taken this course,
they the silver coin would for some years have had a good deal found there a
good deal of employment. upon their hands. At pres At present While I am writing July 1782 the
instructions on this head would come within a narrow
compass: a blank piece of white metal is soon described.

Identifier: | JB/087/165/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	165	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f29 / f30 / f31 / f32
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27690
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