- Six hundred Jews were imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1278, charged with coin clipping.…
- Monetary crimes were particularly severely punished, and coin clipping and counterfeiting could be punishable by death.…
- Originally the mandatory sentence for a man convicted of high treason (other than counterfeiting or coin clipping) was hanging, drawing and quartering.…
- Historically, milling also served to discourage coin clipping.…
- The huge number of clipped coins in the Hoxne Hoard has made it possible for archaeologists to observe the process of coin-clipping in detail.…
- At the time, coin clipping was a widespread practice, which both Jews and Christians were involved in, and a financial crisis resulted, and according to one contemporary source, the practice reduced the currency's value to half of its face value.…
- In 1275, coin clipping was made a capital offence, and in 1278, raids on suspected coin clippers were carried out.…
- The Coin Act 1575 also abolished (for coin clipping only) the penalties of corruption of blood and forfeiture of goods and lands.
- The hoard includes five imported siliquae that had not been clipped, so coin-clipping had probably ceased by then, although the coinage had probably collapsed decades earlier than this, after Roman rule in Britain collapsed.…
- Some resorted to highway robbery; others joined the Domus Conversorum; while a considerable number appear to have resorted to coin clipping as a means of securing a precarious existence.…
- Coin clipping was usually considered by the law to be of a similar magnitude to counterfeiting, and was occasionally punished by death, a fate which befell Thomas Rogers and Anne Rogers.…
- Coin clipping is why many coins have the rim of the coin marked with stripes (milling or reeding), text (engraving) or some other pattern that would be destroyed if the coin were clipped.…
Coin Clipping Punishment
Metal Clipping
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