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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Numismatik LH 10
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Huc inserenda est Historia mutati
pretii metallorum, auri inprimis
atque argitenti inde ab aliquot
seculis.
idetur auri argentiu valor minis
eviluisse hoHujus rei nullum majus
habeo argumentum quam paupertatem
ispaniae, avitiasque Galliae et Batavorum
quanquam enim non negem multum ad
Hispaniae paupertatem conferre errores
quid in reipublicae administratione committuu
tur ignaviamque gentis. Arbitror tamen
eo num rem dedenisse hostium artibus, inse
Gallorum Batavorum et Anglorum cumm
adhuc essent hostes Hispariorum ut
pretium metalli, quo dives maxime erat
vexabat
Hispanus, caeterosa r, destrime
retur
Manifestum enim est hostres
trium nationum
in harum ficum imanu inde sa scculo
fere commercia fuisse, itaque illis fuisse facile
pretia rerum exaltare; maxime precia
manufeciorum) seu industriaeque marhum
humanae, cum ea maxime pausteres essen
Histam  itaque potuere: voluisse
antestuscum essent rerum suarum intelligen
tissimi dubitari non debet. Concludo
ergo eos et fecisse id de quo agitur
et argenti aurique pretium minimum possi–
bile introduxisse.