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Auction: 18016 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World Online Auction
Lot: 264

Great Britain: Exchequer receipt for conscience money, 182[7] for £13, in the name of Edward Bates, secretary to the Board of Taxes, small format piece written in Exchequer Latin and printed in black, on vellum. This vellum receipt replace the wooden tally stick which was deemed to have become 'expensive and unnecessary' and was abolished by Act of 1783. However the Act stated that the change would not come into force until tghe tally cutter died and this did not happen until 1826. However general dislike of the use of Exchequer Latin on these receipts and the failure of the Exchequer to modernise led to the abolishment of the same in 1833. Conscience money was paid anonymously usually for former avoidance of taxes or other debts. Only a handful of these short lived items have been seen, all from the same source and are rare. EF [R10*].

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Estimate
£120 to £150