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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2617820, member: 66&quot;]That is true.&nbsp; In the late 1780&#039;s (right before the Conder tokens began) it was estimated that as much as 90% of the coins in circulation were counterfeit.</p><p><br /></p><p>You also had the problem that they just didn&#039;t issue many coins during George III&#039;s reign.&nbsp; (The government was pretty much broke after fighting wars with France, then France and the United States.)&nbsp; I believe the only silver issues during his reign were six pences and shillings in 1787 and the again starting in 1816.&nbsp; The ony copper coinage were farthings and half pence 1770 - 1775.&nbsp; Then the contact coinage with Boulton in 1797 and 1799 - 1807.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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