The Kentucky Gazette

RICHMOND, October 29.

COUNTERFEIT COINS.

A man who says his name is Thomas Eglan, and that he is from North Carolina, was apprehended, and committed to the jail of Prince Edward county, on Saturday, the 12th instant, for passing counterfeit French Crowns, Spanish milled Dollars, and an English Guinea. On searching him, there were found several base dollars in his shoes, and between two and three hundred counterfeit Crowns and Dollars in his saddle bags. These coins are so well executed that it is difficult to detect them by any other mark than the profile on the dollars, which is the most defective part, the nose is more full and round, and the lips more prominent than in the true dollars. The crowns have scarce a mark by which they may be distinguished. Those of the dollars which we have seen, are dated 1781, '88, '89, '90, and '92.—The crowns 1768, and 1769. The guineas we have not seen. The public are cautioned to guard against receiving coins of the above description, as it is supposed there are several other villains now employed in different parts of this state to dispose of counterfeits from the same mint.