| Description | Ledger of monthly returns analysing counterfeit bank notes received at the Bank of England. The ledger is divided into the following columns: date; total number of notes inspected; daily average number; number of forgeries in each month; nominal amount (value) of forged notes; daily average of forged notes; proportion of forgeries to total number of notes (until Jan 1908). The data for the last two months (Oct and Nov 1928) was not transferred into the ledger, it remains on the returns sheets and is enclosed in the ledger). |