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44 Pt IV . C Reasons Of Frauds relative to the Coin.

1. Primary mischief. It is as likely to fall on subjects as on Foreigners. at first sight that where a man counterfeits foreign Coin, the
loss is not to his own country, but to that to which the Coin purports
to belong. but this is not necessarily the case. The loss
is even more likely to fall upon the people of his own country,
than upon any person abroad . There is no Coin of any Country, but
what some person or other of every Country may have some
occasion to purchase. If then a Man in England, for example,
counterfeits French money it is probably in a view of exchanging
it in England for English money with some person who
wants money to spend in France.

If it falls on foreigners it ought still to be considered. Besides this it is for the reciprocal advantage of all
nations that the protection which every state affords to its own
subjects should be extended, where it is wanted, to the individuals
of every other . The case even of a war between the two
states makes no difference; for howsoever the happiness of a nation
one is at war with may be impaired yet the strength of
it is not in any sensible degree diminished nor consequently
the Security of one's own nation promoted by these minute invasions
of private property.

It may occur on the other side that domestic Coin is the only

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	180	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	f41 / f42 / f43 / f44
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23583
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