The forgeries of public money, being the substance of a lecture delivered before the Numismatic Society / [John Yonge Akerman].
- John Yonge Akerman
- Date:
- [1843]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The forgeries of public money, being the substance of a lecture delivered before the Numismatic Society / [John Yonge Akerman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![This law was insufficient to check the evil, and, two years afterwards, another was enacted, condemning persons of every class to death. It was renewed a. d. and confiscation of estate was added to the penalty of death. The kind of death is, however, not described, these laws having relation solely to the forgers of silver. Those who counterfeited or clipped gold'^ were adjudged to be burnt by the law above-mentioned, which was enacted A.D. 317. In the Anglo-Saxon times, the law’s of Athelstan declare, that a man accused of false coining shall go to the three¬ fold ordeal, and, if guilty, suffer death.® And, in another place, moneyers who illegally work in a wood or elsewhere, shall forfeit their lives, unless pardoned by the king.^ By the laws of Athelstan, he who counterfeited the coin w^as adjudged to lose the hand wherewdth he committed the crime. The laws of Canute, though they deprecate sanguinary punishments in general, doom the forger to lose both hands, which are not to be ransomed either wdth gold or sih’er.^i How far these severe enactments tended to check the ' Siquis solidi circulum circumciderit. — Cod. Theod. See Beauvais. ® Anb aelc myntepe pe man tihS f pal]- peoh j'loje ]'y}>p^iB hic pojibobeii paef janje to jqumpealban ojibale. ^ip he piil beo plea bine man.—Ancient Laws and Institutes of England, edited by Thorpe, Vol. I. p. 296. ^ Anb pa myntejiap ])e nine pudu pjqice'S oppe ellephpaiji. f pa bion heopa peojiep pcylbij.—Ibid. p. 298, Anb ^ip pe mynecejie piil pup^e. plea man op ])a banb pe he ■p pfil mib popbce. j pette uppon pa mynet-pmib'ban.—Ibid. p. 206. 3 pepe opeji pip palp pj^ice J’oli^e psejia hanba pe he palp mib po])bte q he hi mib nanum pinjuin' ne jebicje. ne nub jolbe ne mib peolpjie.—Ibid. p. 380.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3189477x_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
