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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1934, Page 12

It is illegal to gild or silver any counterfeit coin of any foreign prince, State, or country. « -.;■.' "It is interesting to note that the second type of Queen Victoria sixpence, issued in 1887, was recalled, because the design was sueli that the coin could easily pass for a half-guinea when gilded. The Dominions new. coins are sufficiently distinctive in design to prevent gilding and thereby passing off as higher denominations. There is a penalty of seven years' imprisonment for counterfeiting copper cbins,--and of one year for counterfeiting foreign copper coin. "It is also an offence to deface any current coin 'by stamping thereon any word, whether such coin is or is not thereby diminished or lightened.' tittering defaced coins is an>.offence punishable by a fine. The counterfeiting of seals, bank-notes, and stamps is also well provided for in statute la®."._