On 9 May, 11:00, Alison Kilpatrick <[email protected]> wrote: > Transcribed from the 9 May 1828 edition of The Newry Commercial > Telegraph, by permission of The British Library: > > Counterfeit Coin.--On Sunday morning, a person of the name of James > Lynch, a pig-dealer, from the County of Roscommon, trading from this > port, was apprehended by our Police, in the act of making a very large > exportation of base coin, to be circulated in Ireland. He was seen on > the pierhead of George's Dock, with a small trunk, which appeared to be > very heavy, on his shoulder. The constables thinking there was something > suspicious in his appearance, searched his trunk, which was found to > contain a great quantity of base coin, wrapped in fourteen parcels, and > packed in shavings. There were 150 sovereigns, 156 half crowns, and 320 > shillings, making an amount of 310l. [£310] 10s. The coin was > indifferently executed. The man was committed on Monday for > trial.--Liverpool Chronicle. > > ======================= The phrase that amuses me is "The coin was indifferently executed." I wonder do you need a special kind of half-hearted axe-man to carry out an indifferent execution? He'd still need to be pretty clever to cut the head off a coin :-)