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TORTOLA: AE black dogg (1½ pence), ND (1792-1811), VG

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TORTOLA: AE black dogg (1½ pence), ND (1792-1811), VG
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TORTOLA: AE black dogg (1½ pence), ND (1792-1811), KM-11, Prid-19 var, counterstamped Cayenne 2 sous with an incuse capital "H" within a diamond or square on worn host, so-called "Hodge Dogg", VG, ex Glendining & Co., 21-22 September 1981, Maj. Fred S. Pridmore, Part I, lots 203-206 (part), ex Major F. Pridmore Collection. See article published by Bob Lyall in Spink's Numismatic Circular, October 1983, pp. 267-268, "A Hoard of Tortola Black Dogs", and at that time extended to 340 coins. The hoard comprised the coins that were "called in" in 1889 and subsequently sold. The 'host' coins are for the most part well-worn, or even counterfeit, French colonial Cayenne 2 sous, that have been counterstamped with either a capital "T" [for Tortola] or with an "H" inset within a diamond - the so-called "Hodge Doggs", believed issued by the despotic plantation owner Arthur William Hodge (1763-1811) or possibly Bezaliel Hodge who, whilst he owned 20 plantations had, however, died before 1798. Arthur William Hodge was a member of the Executive Council and Legislative Assembly on Tortola and slave owner, who was hanged on 8 May 1811, having been found guilty of the murder of one of his slaves. It is believed he was the only British West Indian slave owner to be executed for the murder of a slave. Many from the hoard were contemporary forgeries, mostly struck on genuine Cayenne 2 sous from forged punches, others, however, from forged punches on false hosts. As the genuine counterstamped coins and forgeries circulated freely along-side each other all should be considered an important part on the numismatic history of Tortola without discrimination.