Mr. Justice THOMPSON delivered the opinion of the court.
This case comes up from the circuit court of the United States for the district of New Jersey, on a certificate of division of opinion in the court. The prisoner was indicted for falsely making and forging one hundred pieces of false and counterfeit coin, each piece in the resemblance and similitude of a foreign silver coin, to wit, a silver coin of Spain called a head pistareen, which by law is made...
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