Counterfeiter Goes Free In Canada

Hope they made him write a check for his fine.

I collect counterfeits - but so far, I only have a few coins.
In England, counterfeiting, often called "Coining", carried the death penalty upto 1832.
Coining also included "Colouring" one coin, so that it could be passed as another:
gilding a shilling, in order to pass it as a guinea; or plating a farthing to pass as a sixpence.

So far as my research has so far revealed, the death penalty was last inflicted for counterfeiting in 1829.
For some reason, the death penalty for coining, for men, was inflicted by hanging.
But for women, it was by burning at the stake: last inflicted in 1789. But after that, a few more ladies were hanged.

My great-great-great-grandmother was selected by one of the finest judges in England, to become a colonist.
She was a mere burglar, but many of the ladies on her ship ("Morley", arrived 1820) were forgers - mostly notes, rather than coins.
The deal was that if you pleaded guilty to a counterfeiting offence, you got transported to the colonies for life.
Or, you could roll the dice, and have a trial by jury: but, if you were found guilty, you hanged.

Anyway, I raise that by way of contrast to the penalty handed out in the recent Canadian case, above.