Answer the following question: Facts: - death place: tyburn , middlesex , england - period: william iii , late 17th century - known for: scamming justice by isaac newton , producing fake coins and being brought to - death date: 22 march 1699 - pseudonym: chandler -lrb- coining alias -rrb- - birth date: circa 1650s or 1665 - name: william chaloner - nationality: english - birth place: warwickshire , england - occupation: counterfeiter doctor , coin clipper , con man , quack Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of william chaloner .
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william chaloner -lrb- 1650s , or 1665 -- 1699 -rrb- was a serial counterfeit coiner and confidence trickster , who was imprisoned in newgate prison several times and eventually proven guilty of high treason by sir isaac newton , master of the royal mint .he was hanged on the gallows at tyburn on 22 march 1699 .he grew up in a poor family in warwickshire , but through a career in counterfeiting and con artistry attained great wealth , including a house in knightsbridge .he started by forging '' birmingham groats '' , then moved on to guineas , french pistoles , crowns and half-crowns , banknotes and lottery tickets .at various times he also made and sold dildos and worked as a quack doctor , soothsayer , and sham anti-jacobite '' agent provocateur '' to collect government rewards .in '' guzman redivivus '' , a posthumous biography published anonymously in 1699 , it was stated that