Ghanaian Coins Fool Machines
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, June 26. Thousands of coins ordered by Ghana’s Nkrumah regime are causing chaos in Britain’s slot machine world, the “Daily Mail” said. The coins of 50 pesewas—worth about a penny—were made by the Royal Mint. They failed to reach Ghana before President Nkrumah was ousted last year and thousands were stolen from a lorry taking them to be melted down. Police said that since then they had spread “over a wide area.”
Someone has discovered that they are the same size as British half-crowns and they are turning up in slot machines.
At the Greenwich Court on Friday, a 40-year-old housewife was conditionally discharged after admitting using pesewa pieces to get cigarettes from a machine.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31407, 28 June 1967, Page 26
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