By 1811, consequent on the great increase in the value of copper caused by the costly wars in which this country was engaged, the twopenny and penny pieces (which were of the intrinsic value of the metal) were melted down, or used in various ways, and thus the copper currency had again, gradually and surely, become deficient. In that year the Copper Companies and others again resorted to the issue of batches of tokens, and these continued to increase and to be issued in large numbers until 1817, when, by Act of Parliament passed on the 27th of July, their manufacture was prohibited, and their issuers ordered, under penalties for disobedience, to take up all they had issued before the 1st of January, 1818. Thus came entirely to an end the issue of Traders’ Tokens in this country. It is impossible to ascertain, or even to form a correct estimate of, the number of varieties of seventeenth century tokens that were issued. Boyne, after mature consideration and much research, estimated the entire issue as not having exceeded 20,000, and in that he was probably tolerably correct. In round numbers the _known_ examples of tokens of the seventeenth century, issued in the various counties of England, Wales, and Ireland, may be put down as in:-- Bedfordshire about 80 Berkshire " 150 Buckinghamshire " 140 Cambridgeshire " 150 Cheshire " 70 Cornwall " 50 Cumberland " 10 Derbyshire " 110 Devonshire " 250 Dorsetshire " 160 Durham " 60 Essex " 250 Gloucestershire " 180 Hampshire " 150 Herefordshire " 50 Hertfordshire " 170 Huntingdonshire " 70 Kent " 500 Lancashire " 100 Leicestershire " 100 Lincolnshire " 200 Middlesex, including London " 3,200 Monmouthshire " 20 Norfolk " 300 Northamptonshire " 150 Nottinghamshire " 90 Northumberland " 20 Oxfordshire " 230 Rutlandshire " 20 Shropshire " 100 Somersetshire " 280 Staffordshire " 100 Suffolk " 300 Surrey, including Southwark " 650 Sussex " 200 Warwickshire " 160 Westmoreland " 25 Wiltshire " 200 Worcestershire " 120 Yorkshire " 450 Uncertain English " 100 Wales " 100