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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brg5658, post: 2107610, member: 29751&quot;]It was a recurring problem.&nbsp; 17th Century tokens were also quite prevalent so it even stretches long before the 1770s.&nbsp; The evasion pieces were still technically tokens -- that loophole in the law meant that so long as the coppers minted weren&#039;t exact duplicates of the Royal coinage, you were okay.&nbsp; The evasions to which you refer were a drop in the bucket compared to the eventual private token coinage from 1787-1804.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If you wanted to, you could lump together the whole period from the mid 1770s through the early 1800s together -- and this is exactly what George Selgin did in his 2011 book (<i><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Good-Money-Birmingham-Beginnings-1775-1821/dp/1598130439/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1426683447&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=good+money" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amazon.com/Good-Money-Birmingham-Beginnings-1775-1821/dp/1598130439/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1426683447&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=good+money" rel="nofollow">Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821</a></b></i>).&nbsp; If you haven&#039;t read that book, it&#039;s likely the best historical treatise on the coinage issues in Great Britain during that era.&nbsp; I highly recommend the read.&nbsp; It is much more complete/thorough than Bill McKivor&#039;s synopsis at The Copper Corner.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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