COINS FROM CANADA

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 147, 18 March 1931, Page 11

COINS FROM CANADA

Circulating at Auckland Canadian silver is being passed across counters at Auckland in fairly large quantities, and, consequently, a new game of “passing them on” has developed. People who find themselves in possession of coins of “foreign” denominations promptly do their best to inflict them on to any shopkeeper whom they think likely to accept them. Men find hotels in rush hours the easiest places in which to dispose of 25-cent pieces, which are most commonly in circulation. At city money exchanges 25-cent pieces are worth 10d., half-dollar pieces 1/9, and dollar-pieces 3/8, but paper money is accepted at par, 4/- being paid for dollars in small quantities and 4/2 when large sums are presented. The coins being circulated, the currency of British countries, including India and Africa, very much resemble in appearance Australian shillings, florins and half-crowns, and only people who are verj’ much on the alert are able to detect the "foreigners.”