However, there was no method for regular people to make a distinction between a specie and counterfeit money (if there was a way to make this distinction, there would have been no reason to go through an authenticity test for foreigners in the first place), and besides, large amounts of counterfeit money were circulating so it was pointless.
だが、一般の人々には正貨と贋貨の区別をつける方法が無く（そもそも簡単に区別がつけられるのであれば、外国人に対する検勘は必要がないことになる）、かつ贋貨の方が大量に出回っているために全く意味が無かったのである。