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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

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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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	182	Info in main headings field	of frauds relative to the coin
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f49 / f50 / f51 / f52
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23585
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