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By HENRY SYMONDS. 



(Bead 20th Feb., 190S.J 



PROPOSE in the following notes to continue the 

 history of the token coinage of the county from the 

 point reached by Mr. J. S. Udal in his paper on the 

 seventeenth century issues {Proceedmgs, Vol. IX., 

 p. 41), in which he gave us an exhaustive survey of 

 that series. I then propose to touch briefly upon 

 certain commemorative medals, and to exhibit, as 

 far as I am able, some specimens of each class to 

 illustrate the subject under consideration. 

 From the year 1672 (when Charles II. forbade by proclamation 

 the uttering of private halfpence or farthings) until about 1787 the 

 country was more or less inadequately supplied with copper 

 money by the Royal Mint, and these shortcomings, due perhaps 

 to the strain of the wars, resulted in the producton of numberless 

 counterfeits of the minor national currency. In the last named 

 year the Government of George III. had so far neglected their 

 duties in this respect that copper tokens began once more to find 

 their way into circulation, and were freely accepted by the public 



