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1 Prices fell; many communes were bankrupt; kings, in desperate straits, debased the coinage and despoiled the Church.
2 He gave valuable assistance in debasing the coinage , and became by far the richest man in the country.
3 He debased the coinage , and established a fixed scale of prices to be observed by all merchants and traders.
4 To obtain money he debased the coinage , and then endeavoured to prevent a rise in prices by an arbitrary tariff.
5 As usual, the government was blamed for the economic evils of the time and for once, in having debased the coinage , justly.
6 When, reign after reign, governments debased the coinage , the moral tone of the middle classes could scarcely have been higher than now.
7 Referring to the sale of offices and titles, to the habit of debasing the coinage , and to that of touching for scrofula.]
8 [Footnote 21: James II., during his unsuccessful campaign in Ireland, debased the coinage in order to make his funds meet the demands of his soldiery.
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