19TH-CENTURY SILVER TOKENS WHO WAS HENRY MORGAN AND WHY DID NOBODY LIKE HIM?
A notice appeared in the Bath Chronicle for 27 February 1812 reading as follows: ‘Bristol 17 Feb.1812 IMPORTANT CAUTION We the undersigned hereby caution the public against a spurious imitation of our Twelve-penny and sixpenny tokens differing, however in the names on the reverse, which in the base tokens are all erroneously spelt, as will be perceived in the specimens subjoined:
ORIGINAL TOKEN
Payable
By Messrs
Fras Garratt
Wm. Terrell
Edwd Bird
Lant Beck &
Frans H
Grigg
RATHBORNE PLACE TOKEN
Payable
By Messrs
Frans Garrett
Wr. Terrail
Edmd Bird
Lamt Beck &
Frann H
Gregg
Considering that it is an imperious duty which we owe to the public and ourselves to trace the authors of this infamous deception, we have succeeded in ascertaining that it was carried into effect by the
