Mayor of Cantalupo (Rieti), autograph letter signed on counterfeit coins, 1868

Handwritten letter signed by the Mayor of Cantalupo in Sabina (Rieti) Gio. Battista Maniri, addressed to the district magistrate of Poggio Mirteto (Rieti), dated 5 April 1868, on the figure of Francesco Pomponi accused of being a counterfeit dealer. In the writing, Maniri communicates the information in his possession about the accused: "Alessandro Egidj told me that in November 1867 Pomponi, with the aforementioned emigrant, went to his house and wanted to send for a liter of wine a papal silver coin of 2 ½ lire to Filomena, his wife, who returned with the wine saying that the host Lucia Contì had not wanted the said coin as it seemed to her to be false, that Pomponi immediately took the coin back in his pocket, saying that 'they had given in Poggio Mirteto, and gave a silver paul to pay for the wine ”.

Interesting testimony from the 19th century relating to investigations into the circulation of counterfeit coins in commercial exchanges. Four pages, two of which are written, two ink stamps of the Municipality of Cantalupo, a tear of 5 cm without losses, but overall excellent general conservation.