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48 P IV . C Reasons Of Frauds relative to the Coin.

Quest. III. Why Coins of different Metal are put upon the same footing. Reasons.

The smallness of the value is compensated by the quantity. At first sight it may appear hard that a fraud upon
an Article of so small a value as the Copper Coin should be
punished as severely as a fraud upon one of so high a value
as the Silver or even the Gold Coin, since the profit that
may be made by the falsifying any piece of the less precious
metal is not near so great as that which may be made
by the falsifying of the more precious metal. But the case
here is that the mischief is not to be estimated from the effects
of a single Act but from the effects of the Habit. Now
when the Habit is taken into the Account the one practice
does not seem to demand in any considerable degree a greater
punishment than the other. Where the profit upon a
single piece is the greatest, the difficulty of getting it off is
the greatest. The profit upon a base shilling may, it is
true be 24 times as great (or perhaps more) as the profit upon

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	181	Info in main headings field	of frauds relative to the coin
Image	004	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f45 / f46 / f47 / f48
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23584
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