IN a remote West Yorkshire community in the late 18th century - out of sight and out of mind as far as the Lords of the Treasury were concerned - a powerful gang of counterfeiters operated a lucrative ...

The Coiners were counterfeiters of coins, and operated in Yorkshire in the 1700s. Hundreds of years later, an equally innovative (but legal!) group of people has created a unique method of telling the ...

The past three months have been good to everyone in the crypto world as the price of Bitcoin has shot past $40,000—it is currently hovering near $44,000—for a year-to-date gain of around 170%, and as ...

Shane Meadows is back with a period-piece three-parter about one of the biggest frauds in British history: The Gallows Pole. It’s unmistakably a Meadows production from the off, a gothic-tinged tale ...

In 2017 a new £1 coin will appear in our pockets with a design extremely difficult to forge. In the mid-16th century, Elizabeth I's government came up with a series of measures to deter "divers evil ...

You are in: North Yorkshire > Entertainment > The Arts > Arts and culture > Telling the Coiners' story Still from The Last Coiner by Duncan Laing The Coiners were counterfeiters of coins, and operated ...

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