Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
15th September 1784
804.
JOSEPH
HARRIS
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was indicted for
that he, not being a person employed in the Mint, nor being authorized by the Treasury, on the 14th day of February
last, one mould made of sand, on which was made and impressed the figure, resemblance, and similitude, of the head side of the silver coin of this realm, called a shilling, without any lawful authority, knowingly, feloniously, and traiterously, had in his custody and possession against the statute
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A Second Count, for having a mould for a sixpence.
There being no evidence, the prisoner was
ACQUITTED
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Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.