{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coin-act-1694/section-III",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coin-act-1694/section-III.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/6-7/17",
  "legislation_title": "Coin Act 1694",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coin-act-1694",
  "path": "section/III",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "III",
  "heading": "Buying or selling or having in Possession Clippings, &c",
  "text": "Penalty.\nAnd for the better preventing the clipping diminishing or impaireing the Currant Coin of this Kingdom bee it further enacted by the authority, aforesaid That if any person whatsoever shall buy or sell and knowingly have in his custody or possession any clippings or filings of the Currant Coin of this Kingdome hee shall for every such offence forfeit the said clippings or filings and alsoe the su[m]m of Five hundred pounds One moiety to his Majesty and the other to the informer to bee recovered as aforesaid and shall bee alsoe branded in the right cheek with a hott iron with the letter, R, and until payment of the said Five hundred pounds shall suffer imprisonment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/6-7/17/section/III",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:54.588199+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}