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5376. MONEY, Coinage.—[further continued] .

Perfection in the engraving
is among the greatest safeguards against counterfeits, because engravers of the
first class are few, and elevated by their rank
in their art, and far above the base and
dangerous business of counterfeiting.—
Coinage Report. Washington ed. vii, 463.
(April. 1790)