JB/071/161/001

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Frauds relative to the Coin.

[(D) Counterfeiting] Counterfeiting is the fashioning any substance
which is not genuine (AA) and undiminished Coin in the
intent of causing it to pass for genuine and undiminished.
[(AA) Genuine] The word genuine is to be understood here
with reference to that denomination of Coin for which the
piece in question is intended to be passed. Accordingly if
in counterfeiting a piece of genuine Coin of a given Value
a man employ a piece of Coin of an inferior Value it is counterfeiting
the former as well as if he had taken any other
portion of matter which had never been in the shape of
any kind of Coin. For instance if a man takes a piece
of Copper coin and washes it or rubs it with mercury
or cases it with Silver to make it look like Silver: or
beats out a smaller piece of silver Coin to the diameter of
one of a larger kind.
Genuine Coin, what [(E) Genuine Coin] Genuine Coin is that which, in the state
of which it purports to be the Coin, is made at the public
Mint, by persons employed by publick Authority, proceeding according

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Identifier: | JB/071/161/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	161	Info in main headings field	frauds relative to the coin
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23564
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