New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . legal reproduction and passing of paper mon(the phrase To Counterfeit is Death is so fmiliar as to scarcely need repetition. The minting of the Horse Head coppers wthe cause for legislation in 1787, which had for iobject the prevention of Circulation of bad ailight Coppers in New Jersey. By its terms a:one who passed or offered to pass any coppeother than those made by the State coiners wasforfeit ten times the value of the copper so issueThis act did not apply to coppers struck by ordof the Congress of the United States. O
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . legal reproduction and passing of paper mon(the phrase To Counterfeit is Death is so fmiliar as to scarcely need repetition. The minting of the Horse Head coppers wthe cause for legislation in 1787, which had for iobject the prevention of Circulation of bad ailight Coppers in New Jersey. By its terms a:one who passed or offered to pass any coppeother than those made by the State coiners wasforfeit ten times the value of the copper so issueThis act did not apply to coppers struck by ordof the Congress of the United States. Of the money current in New Jersey previousthe opening of the nineteenth century but f(specimens, either of bills of credit or coins, imain outside the limits of private and public clections. Much of the paper money was destroyby redemption, more by fire, decay, and the n ONY AND AS A STATE 259 ages of rats and moths, while of the specie, thou-sands of foreign coins were melted and convertedinto federal currency when the United Statesmint wais opened in TWO ;r^ Ueto of tflf Colony of ^ NfW-tork, tl)10 BitL ftftllberecerved in. all PaymtntJ in Hm Titafitiy^ for TWO POUNDS, TTEW-rOKK, n f Vebrwcy ifr, 1771. ^^r* A*«l«»f O^^d^O
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