The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 39, September 29, 2002, Article 15

BEER MONEY: DADDY MADE IT

  One of my favorite sources for contemporary accounts
  of 18th century numismatics is The Gentleman's Magazine.
  Stan Stephens, writing in the Yahoo Colonial Coins news
  group transcribed this interesting item from vol 44 (1774):

  "31 March: 'Information having been given to Sir John
  Fielding, that a company of coiners made a business of
  coining halfpence in a house on Fish-street-hill, that
  magistrate applied to the Lord Mayor for his warrant to
  apprehend them, which he obtained, and sent five of his
  people, well-armed, to take them by surprize.  There were
  no less than eight of them at work, who, when they found
  themselves discovered, endeavoured to make resistance,
  and one of them received a ball in his head before he
  surrendered.

  The night before, they had sent a child for some beer, with
  new halfpence to pay for it; and the landlord observing to
  the child that they were warm, she innocently replied, that
  her daddy had just made them.  A cart-load of Implements
  were found In the house, and carried to Bow-street."
  (p.185).

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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