“Since money belongs to the community … it would seem that the community may control it as it wills, and therefore may make as much profit from alteration as it likes, and treat money as its own property.”

Source: Traictie de la Première Invention des Monnoies (1355), Ch. 22: Whether the community may alter money.

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