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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 341125, member: 12789&quot;]My Great Great Grandfather was convicted of counterfeiting coins in 1917, I even have the newspaper clippings that discussed his trial and conviction and then the overturned sentence in 1919.</p><p><br /></p><p>The story is that my great aunt got hold of some of the coins, he was making the new WL halves, and took them to the mercantile to spend them.&nbsp; The shopkeeper commented that the coins were sure shiney and new, and she responded that &quot;Daddy made them last night&quot;. His big undoing in making the coins, was making ones, the new WL halves that were not commonly seen in circulation yet. She left the store and later on that evening my great great grandfather got visitors from the Secret Service.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fortunately my Great Grandmother attended the trial in 1917 in Kansas City, and could recount some details of the trial and what happened even well into her 90&#039;s a few years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>His sentence was overturned on appeal in 1919.&nbsp; My Great Grandmother said the coins were all dumped in the Missouri River when they were seized.&nbsp; He lived until 1938, and stayed on the right side of the law thereafter that scare.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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