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particular description of Foreign mumce, and so pertinaciously adhered to its
without sufficient
Fumerous attempts have been
ILLC,
RCALON ·
make to introduce other soins into
cheulation without sueccis;
the
agency
through which the chopped dollars were
longer exists and no otter
introduced no
of equal power has arisen in its placc .
The different coinages of Mexican
of
and South American dollars are various values that they are looked
with some
in a
Luck
upon
degree of distrust; and although the supplies of Spanish Dollars a great degree scaced on the separatin grom Spain of its American Dependencies,
sufficient amount had been
A
presioning introduced
of
for the requirements
the trade, and they continued to be Employed as the sole medium of exchange
preference
to all other coins. -
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210
preference is now attributable solely to the certain assay of the Spanish
gollars, and to the confidence in them acquired by the Chinese
from
the
system of chopping; and although that system has deprived them of the advantage derived
from the fired weight of perfect coins, their defaced condition is
disadvantage by the
considered no
chinese, who now circulate them by weight instead of by tale, and who in some districts actually prefer the small pieces to the perfect coins.
To wedded are the Chinese to
that no the chopped Dollar currenêr alteration can be looked for until it
is quite worn out; the exchange value of all other commodities is measured be it's standard not motuce and manufactures only, but other freign
and even the native muctium
money,
I.
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