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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;daveydempsey, post: 1589726, member: 29458&quot;]No Licence or Act of Parliament was ever sanctioned for the manufacture of these tokens&nbsp; and they did not contain their full value of metal.</p><p>However the Bank of England did strike £4,457,649 worth of tokens between 1804 and 1815.</p><p>There are forgeries out there and at the time one could be hung for making,&nbsp; passing or uttering forged coinage so the trick was to make them similar to the real thing a bit like the George III gambling tokens that looked like Guineas.</p><p>If caught with these you only did jail time and your neck was saved.</p><p>Having said that&nbsp; many proofs and patterns of these bank tokens were made in silver, gold, copper, white metal, copper gilt, pewter and brass.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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