Tokens Issued In The Seventeenth Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries In Yorkshire By Tradesmen Overseers Of The Poor Etc Also The Seals Of All The Corporations In That County PDF Download

Excerpt from Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries, in Yorkshire, by Tradesmen, Overseers of the Poor, Etc: Also, the Seals of All the Corporations in That County The Tokens were issued to such an extent that it is presumed twenty thousand varieties were issued in England, Wales, and Ireland. The Government of Charles II. Was induced to issue a national copper currency, and in 1665 patterns of halfpennies and were struck at the Mint; but it was not until 1672 that thefarthings of similar size to those of the present day were ready for circulation, when the Tokens were suppressed by a stringent Proclamation of the King. Some attempts were made to continue them, but the threat of Government taking against the offenders effectually put them down, and after this time we hear no more of them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.