Another interpretation is the people's right to interfere with the coinage. An officer asks his superior for the payment of those under him. replies the superior, "but I'can lend you an ap-Pliance for making spurious half ho," answer the and the making of halt dollars begins. History records the fact thal someone waxed fat und objected. The sixty million ure objecting rather furiously jast now, because of too many half dollars on the market Paying the army by lending a machine for making half dollars' is always dangerous. especially when there is no stipulation as to the. amount of silver that should added to the brass and antimony, Mahjongg has a peculiar fascination for the inhabitants of this largo ud wealthy province but, when the game is played with Lad. hal€- dollars, the players are inclined to become drowsy. The people are still maintaining their rights and worse and worse half-dollars_are being] made.
appears that the subordinate is now lending this half-dollar machine to his uncle's brother the latter has let the thing run riot.
Epidemic of Spuriocs Coins and military, scholar are now exercising the! Fight to make bad half dollars. They fare all over the province. In somo} cities they are worth 1,000 cash, in others they bring only 800 cash. In one contre the military authori demanded from the merchants. the sum of $5,000. The merchants, harmless as' doves, but as wise as Serpents, grave them the sum in spurious half dollars. A fow days later came a crash. Someono aceidently dropped a half dollar into a charcoal fire and the coin completely Aisappeared. That surely must be tad money, concluded the innocent merchant, and the price of the half dollar fell furiously from 3,500 cash to 1,000 cash. And then the cash shops closed their doors. In the meantime the authorities sent the merchants back their kind gift and demanded copper-cash in exchange. wise as serpents and, has simply come to a standstill the merchant refuses to do business; refuse to accept bad coinage. About twenty years ago it was the 10-cash piece. then came the 20-cash piece, then the 50, then the 100, then the 200, and to-day the 200-cash piece is the same size, but not the same value of the 10: cash piece of some twenty years
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