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

Quest. VI. Why the Punishment is no severer? Reasons

Difficulty of circulating a considerable quantity. The mischief that can be done in this way by one offender
or even a confederacy of offenders is not so great as at first sight
it might appear. By himself a man of a given rank of life fortune
and occupation cannot, without being detected, circulate
more Coin that it will be expected should be disbursed by a
man of such rank, fortune, and reputation as his appears to be: and, of the Coin which
he does circulate, certainly it is not the whole that can be bad
Coin of his own coining. What he can circulate of this bad
Coin without being detected, will even bear but a small
ratio to the whole of the coin he circulates. It is true, that
by continually changing the people with whom he deals, and
thus contriving always to have strangers to deal with, he may
circulate more and more: but the circulation even when this
method is taken to extend it, has still its bounds. In the
first place the being perpetually employed in finding out new
persons to deal with will take up a considerable degree
of time. In the next place he must, upon an average, expend with

Identifier: | JB/071/184/002"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	184	Info in main headings field	of frauds relative to the coin
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f57 / f58 / f59 / f60
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23587
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