Whistler Público Deposited
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Evidently at one time a slang designation for a counterfeit Farthing. Vaux, in his Flash Dictionary, 1812, says: " Browns and whistlers, bad half-pence and Earthings."
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)