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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;l.cutler, post: 7854576, member: 13318&quot;]Yes, that is from Crosby, been reading him for 40 years!&nbsp; There were some erroneous assumptions in the 19th century that the bungtown tokens referred to in some early legislation trying to rid the economy of lightweight imitations were evasions.&nbsp; Crosby picked up on that, and helped perpetuate the myth.&nbsp; The research of the last 150 years or so has completely shot down this theory.&nbsp; They were only produced for a very short time in the late 1790&#039;s, most were backdated.&nbsp; Die linkage has pretty securely attributed them to just a few token manufacturers.&nbsp; I would strongly suggest getting hold of a copy of the Journal of Early American Numismatics as stated, Very thoroughly researched and very comprehensive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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