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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1660895, member: 39&quot;]My rough translation - but keep in mind that you want a text translated that was written about 200 years ago, in a language (style) that may have been common back then ... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The consideration shown, in advance, to platinum coins in Art. X may come too soon. It is not improbable that the Russian platinum ducats also go to Western Europe, but in the first time they will, like the Schaumünzen*, be eagerly bought. For the time being it is not to be expected that in Germany platinum coins would be minted, as long as that Russian coin is good and of constant quality, and not be made more expensive than the raw metal by the minting costs. Otherwise there is a recommendation in the hardness as well as in the higher price, as a 2 Gulden coin would, in platinum, not be bigger than a half Kopfstück** — Prohibiting paper money is something that the author/critic would not recommend as it is alien (?) to the subject in question, as paper money rarely goes beyond the borders of a country anyway, and as several credit papers have more or less in common with paper money, which is why the proposed regulation/destination*** could be the reason for various disputes.</p><p><br /></p><p>* coins not intended for circulation, mostly given as presents</p><p>** The &quot;Kopfstück&quot; (from Italian testone) was a large silver coin, originally from Milan but later minted elsewhere too</p><p>*** various meanings depending on context</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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