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a Proposal for accommodating the English Coins to the decimal mode of account
a Farthing to be considered as the money unit, a halfpenny as Two & a penny as 4.
The value of Each Coin marked in Figures on the exergue one tenth of alloy to be added to both silver & gold
In order to Lessen the Length of a Line of figures necessary to express a large sum it will be necessary to give names to the largest silver the largest Gold & the Least Copper Coin, the others may be calld by their numerical appellation. Thus 960,740,942 units may be Calld one million of Georges seven hundred & forty Thousand Georges Nine Cents & forty two units & noted thus
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