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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



Identifier: | JB/071/181/004"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

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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