The early coins of America and the laws governing their issue : comprising also descriptions of the Washington pieces, the Anglo-American tokens, many pieces of unknown origin, of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the first patterns of the United States Mint (1875)
Crosby, Sylvester S. (Sylvester Sage), d. 1914 · Boston : The author · leaf 185
enty-one lashes, well laid on; and, moreover, every snch offender shallforfeit the sum of one hundred pounds, lawful money of this province, onehalf to the use of the Governor, and the other half to the discoverer, withcosts and charges of prosecution. We have found nothing more of interest in the… … 1 It is not our intention to give all acts relating to counterfeiting, butwe have inserted tliis as an example of the severity with which such offences,and indeed many of much less enormity, were piuiished in olden times. Aninstance of the use of the pillory in 1679, is thus recorded in…
Coins, American · Tokens
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