Barbara Villiers
Del Mar, Alexander![Barbara Villiers](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/947/9470155/CHSBZCOP039470155.jpg)
The insidious crime of secretly or surreptitiously altering the monetary laws of a state - than which no more dastardly or fatal blow can be dealt at its liberties - is not a new one. There is a suggestion in the decree of B.C. 360, concerning the ancient iron money of Sparta, that Gylipus was not unfamiliar with this grave offence. In a later age, Pliny, who justly calls it 'a crime against mankind, ' evidently refers to that alteration of th...