of Mexican dollars; also within the Hanyang district. Till recently the coining of counterfeit Mexicans was commonly supe posed to lave been confined to the neighbourhood of the sea-ports. But it happens that a work is in existence (Qf [LIZ $7) which by devoting one of its volumes to the tricks of coiners, for the sake of honest traders, diees undoubtedly afford much useful information for coiners themselves who wish to learn the trade, and to produce Mexicans of quite passable weight and ring.
AS TO SMALL (COUNTERFEIT) COPPER CASU, everyone knows its circulation to be enormous. Indeed in parts, it forms almost the only currency in general use. The penalty for coining "small cash" is decapitation, but that penalty is seldom carried out. What generally happens is that the cash is both confiscated and thrown into circulation, as I know it to have been some yenrs ago ata certain place within the Hanyang prefecture, where a raid was made on the coiners' den, and both men and coins were seized. The mandarin, however, finding that a man of high status had lent his name to the vonture, dared not prosecute, but compounded matters by arranging for a four days? fessional festival for the idols of the city; all expenses being defrayed out of the pile of small cash he had captured. T not only saw the processions but was able to assure those connected that o {more appro! method could have been devised than that of parading the counterfeit deities in the streets as champions of counterfeit coinage.
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