| Level | Item |
| Reference Number (click to see whole series/group) | F2/2 |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Title | FRESHFIELDS PAPERS RELATING TO FORGED AND OTHER IMITATION BANK NOTES: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE PRINCIPALLY CONCERNED WITH FORGED NOTES CIRCULATING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (UK) |
| Date | 25 Jan 1861 - 24 Mar 1880 |
| Description | 1861 Forged £5 notes from a fresh plate. Lebas, suspected of forgery.
1863 Forged note at Tredegar.
1865 Williams, alias Jackson, convicted for forgery 1863.
1870 Policy of despatching forged notes to London for examination and return marked 'forged'.
1871 Forged £5 and £10 notes from a new plate. Forged notes in Soho and at Barnstaple and Glasgow.
1874 Forged £5 notes from a new plate, dated March 1874. Forged notes in Ireland.
1876 Photographic forgery of £5 note uttered in Ireland.
1877 Opinion on payment of notes with amounts altered.
1878 Investigation of the tampering with a £5 note, Islington.
1879 Forged notes at Cardiff. |
| Keyword | Irish Republic; Eire; Republic of Ireland |