The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 27, July 8, 2007, Article 9

REFERENCES ON BRITISH COUNTERFEITING OF U.S. COLONIAL PAPER MONEY

In an earlier E-Sylum I recalled reading of some British efforts
to counterfeit notes of the revolting colonies and wondered if the
Brits were more successful than the Nazis in wartime counterfeiting.

Bob Neale writes: "You may be in the perfect place to look up an article
by Eric Newman in Brit. Numis. J. 29 (1959) pp 174-87: "The successful
British counterfeiting of American paper money during the American
revolution." I cannot access this for free. I don't know that the
article specifically addresses the amount of counterfeiting that took
place on a ship in New York harbor, but I'll bet it is interesting.

"Jason Goodwin also has a relevant quote in his book, Greenback, on
p 134, and Richard Doty seems to agree in his book 'America's Money
America's Story', p 49."

[Many thanks - I'll start tracking down some of these resources.
-Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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