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Morgan, Henry |
Dubious producer and issuer of tokens around 1811. Henry Morgan produced tokens for other issuers, and also issued some himself. The address given by him (12 Rathbone Place, London) makes clear he ran a letterbox company, as there never was a Henry Morgan registered at this address, nor was there enough room to manufacture tokens in such a scale. Morgan must have had sufficient production facilities in regard to the scale of his issues of tokens. Waters (1957) assumes the facility to have been located in London or Birmingham. Morgan always claimed to have produced his tokens with a Royal license resp. that he was a licensed token manufacturer. As there generally never was such a license, this claim represents a quite obvious lie. Inquiries showed that Morgan simply had referred to the license to manufacture silver, which was linked to anybody legally active in the production of silverware. Morgan also produced copies of tokens issued by other companies/issuers with only minimal changes in inscriptions, legends and iconography. He then issued those into circulation to the detriment of the legal issuers. Lit.: A. W. Waters, Notes on the Silver Tokens of the Nineteenth Century (1957) pp. ix-x; J. O'Donald Mays, Silver Tokens and Bristol, The British Numismatic Journal 48, 1978, pp. 100, 102. |
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Authority  , Producer |
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