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As well say, that, on a promise to pay so many francs in France, or so many pounds sterling in England, you could honestly acquit yourself by handing over a scrap of printed paper, inconvertible in value.
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Sumner argues against the idea that a promise to pay in foreign currency can be satisfied with worthless paper.
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