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Principles, on which it appears that a more perfect system of currency may be formed either in the precious or non-intrinsic metals : so as to produce a representative coin or token, the genuineness of which may be instantly determined by a seperate gauge, or an intrinsic self-gauging coin, any counterfeit of which must be immediatly detected, however accurate the resemblance or exact the weight

Archive Print Item: Economics F-3/CON

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Type of record: Book

Title: Principles, on which it appears that a more perfect system of currency may be formed either in the precious or non-intrinsic metals : so as to produce a representative coin or token, the genuineness of which may be instantly determined by a seperate gauge, or an intrinsic self-gauging coin, any counterfeit of which must be immediatly detected, however accurate the resemblance or exact the weight

Level: Item

Classmark: Economics F-3/CON

Creator(s): Congreve, Sir William (1772-1828)

Additional creator(s): Whiting, James (Printer); Egerton, Thomas (fl. 1784-1830) (Bookseller)

Related people: Whiting, James; Egerton, Thomas

Publisher: Printed by J. Whiting,... Published by T. Egerton, ... and sold by all booksellers

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1819

Language: English

Size and medium: 26 p., 3 leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/328669

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002290679705181

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Cover title reads "Principles, on which it appears that a more perfect system of currency may be founded either in the precious or non-intrinsic metals..."

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Cover signed: J. Whatman, esq

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