Bingham Bulletin | 1928-07-19 | Page 6 | Not English Currency

ret Jeton, or token, was minted at Toornay, in Flanders, the native town of the young pretender to the throne of England. It Is presumed that War beck (or Werbecque) carried with blm several thousand of these pieces to the British Isles, intending to distribute distrib-ute ' them among the acclaiming crowds had be succeeded in deposing Ilenry VII. In view of the great rarity of the piece today, It Is probable prob-able that the agents of the British government seized and destroyed all the specimens they could lay their hands upon. f P Not English Currency It is now established that the to-called to-called rerkln. Warbeck groat, which hat been termed by tome wrltert at 'the first English coin with a date, la Neither English nor a coin. This til-