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auctoritatis, conveniens est quod ipse, pro communitate, faciat fabricare monetam, et eam conç;"rua impressione sig-narc. Hcec autem impressio débet esse subtilis, et ad effig-iendum sea contrafaciendurn diffîcilis. Débet etiam prohiber! sub pœna ne aliquis extraneus princeps vel alter i"ab ri caret monetam similem in figura et minoris valoris, ita quod vulg-us nesciret disting-uere inter istani etillam. Hoc esset malefactum, nec aliquis potest de hoc habere privileg-ium ; quia falsitas est, et causa juste bellandi contra talem exlraneum.

and of more auctorite, it is the more convenient that he for the cornu nalte do make money, and witii causes convenable to sig-ne with impressioun '. Forsoth this impressioun oug-ht to be subtiK'. and to the liknes or countrefet of hard,aIso itoug-ht to forbede under peyne lest any or strang-e prince or any other shuld make money like in fig-ure and of lasse valure, so that the comune people cannot distyncte bitwene this and that.

^ This were a curscd deede lest any myg-ht of this to hâve a priv. leg-e, for whi it is false and is cause of iust bataile ag-enst suche a straung-ier.

Gapitulum VI ^ Cujus sit ipsa moneta

Quamvis pro utilitate commun! princeps habeat sig-nare numisma, non tamen ipse dominus seu proprietarius est monetae currentis in suo principatu. Moneta siquidem est instrumentum ;equivalens per-