Resumen de Los EEUU contra Joseph Gardner
In January 1836, the Supreme Court of the United States had to pronounce, atthe request of the Second Court of the State of New Jersey, on two specific questions: whether theSpanish provincial silver coins of two real, popularly known in Spain as peseta and in the UnitedStates as head pistareens could be considered as a part of a Spanish piece of eight, or Spanish milleddollar, and whether these head pistareens were legal currency in the United States under thecontemporary legislation. The reason of this was to elucidate the punishment to be applied to aforger, Joseph Gardner who had counterfeited a hundred pieces of two bits Spanish provincial coinin Bloomfield, New Jersey, half a year before.
