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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;vlaha, post: 1879155, member: 56398&quot;]Now for your history lesson, during the late 1700s the Tower mint stopped producing hapennies.&nbsp; So, the law that bad money drives out good came into effect.&nbsp; Volia!&nbsp; In 1789 Matthew Bolton remarked, &quot;<i>In the course of my journeys, I observe that I receive upon an average two-thirds counterfeit halfpence for change at toll-gates, etc., and I believe the evil is daily increasing, as the spurious money is carried into circulation by the lowest class of manufacturers, who pay with it the principal part of the wages of the poor people they employ&quot; (</i>Quote copied from Wikipedia<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).&nbsp; Of course some of these were Condor tokens (Named after a guy going by the same name.), which had more or less weight depending on the issuer.&nbsp; Then there were the flat out counterfeits, like this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]318431[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]318433[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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