CHARGE OF COINING

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 51, 24 November 1930, Page 3

CHARGE OF COINING

Clever Counterfeits In a case at Ennis, in which two itinerant tinkers were charged with coining, a bank official said that he could not be sure that the florin produced was not genuine unless it was longer in use. It differed from a genuine coin in its sound when rung on a hard surface, and the milling was somewhat rougher than in the genuine coin. But the shilling was so finely turned out that it would pass him as genuine. A Civic Guard, who tracked down.taß two men in court, described how he visited a tinkers’ camp in plain clothes and witnessed the making of the coins. One man, he said, placed a lump of !11 ®tai resembling silver in a tin ladle, held it over the turf camp fire, ami sprinkled a white powder on the inolien metal. Then, taking a mould from h '* he poured the metal into it. . Tn a Jew minutes a coin was jerked into n can tom. were committed for < ' J ? C iho e Vustiei remarking that there fmd been an rt’idemie of this kind of case recently.