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<head>P<hi rend='superscript'>t</hi>. IV.<!-- Pt. IV. written in pencil --> 49</head> | |||
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perhaps more) as the difficulty of getting off a bad <sic>half-penny</sic>.<add>(a)</add><!-- added above the full stop and a space or two afterwards of the previous word --> | |||
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<p><hi rend='superscript'>(a)</hi> In England so little difficulty is made about the Copper Coin; | |||
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that bad <sic>half-pence</sic> are often taken knowingly, even when good ones | |||
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are in plenty. Bad shillings , it is true, are also taken knowingly: | |||
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but then it is because there are scarce any good ones to be had: | |||
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and such bad ones as are most current are not in any way | |||
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great degree inferior to good ones. But neither in England nor | |||
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any where else will a man take any Gold coin which he suspects | |||
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to be counterfeit or materially diminished. A piece of Gold | |||
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Coin is of course examined with much more attention than a | |||
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piece of Silver coin : as a piece of Silver Coin is with more | |||
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attention than a piece of Copper Coin . In England especially since | |||
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the reformation of the Gold Coin a man seldom takes a Guinea | |||
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or a half Guinea of a stranger without weighing it ; but a man | |||
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never thinks of weighing , and very seldom of submitting to any other test a piece of Silver Coin . | |||
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Pt. IV. 49
C
Of Frauds relative to the Coin. Reasons
upon a bad halfpenny: but then the difficulty of putting
off a base Shilling may be Twenty four times as great (or
perhaps more) as the difficulty of getting off a bad half-penny.(a)
Another thing is, that in proportion as the Coin is of the smaller
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Note.
(a) In England so little difficulty is made about the Copper Coin;
that bad half-pence are often taken knowingly, even when good ones
are in plenty. Bad shillings , it is true, are also taken knowingly:
but then it is because there are scarce any good ones to be had:
and such bad ones as are most current are not in any way
great degree inferior to good ones. But neither in England nor
any where else will a man take any Gold coin which he suspects
to be counterfeit or materially diminished. A piece of Gold
Coin is of course examined with much more attention than a
piece of Silver coin : as a piece of Silver Coin is with more
attention than a piece of Copper Coin . In England especially since
the reformation of the Gold Coin a man seldom takes a Guinea
or a half Guinea of a stranger without weighing it ; but a man
never thinks of weighing , and very seldom of submitting to any other test a piece of Silver Coin .
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f49 / f50 / f51 / f52 |
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[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]] |
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caroline fox |
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