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business is conducted, this description of Counterfeits must be admitted and paid for; because they are freely received by the People, and can only be detected by the most experienced Artists. To refuse Compensation for Tokens imitated so accurately, as to deceive intelligent and cautious People, would be unjust; To strive against Public Opinion, which has given Currency to these Pieces innocently and without suspicion of Combination with the Counterfeiter, would be an Experiment of some hazard - and to select them, would be a work of Time and of Labour, as costly possibly to the Nation, as the charge of compensating the Holders of them; There can, however, be little doubt, that the advantage derived
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