Excerpt from Certain Considerations Concerning the Coinage of the Colony and the Public Bills of Credit of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay

This is the first point at which we obtain a legal rating of the piece of eight in New England currency, and it might be inferred that this value was assigned in consequence of the depreciation of the coinage from the rate at which it was originally minted. If this opinion should prevail.

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