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S.W.Fores No. 19, for Clodhopper, Bumpkin & Co., 2 Pence, 1 August 1819, promising to pay ‘Messrs Fudge, Swindle and Nocash, Bankers or Bearer, when Country Banks shall have been abolished and when Sterling Gold and Silver, only, shall again become the circulating medium of Old England’, signed Zekel Hardbrass and Roger Rustic, with a vignette showing ‘Shuffleton Bank’ building with a collapsed sign with the caption ‘All is not Gold that glitters, Mind yourself’ and the poem ‘Rais’d by the necessity of the time, Ruin’d by our speculations. Learn to be wise by others harm and ye will do full well’, good very fine £100-£150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes.

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This is a note protesting the expanding number of country (provincial) banks in England and Wales. These banks were barely regulated and often failed, often resulting in ruin for investors and savers at all levels of society. IT also seems to be broadly objecting to paper money in general.