OLD COIN FOUND
Nelson Trade Token While passing through the old Sydney Street cemetery recently, a young woman disturbed an old copper coin almost buried in one of the paths. It proved to be one of those retail trade tokens, -or advertising pennies, which some firms used to Issue and use as coins of the realm, and at the saiu» time “tell the world” of their existence. The coin in question, which is in a good state of preservation, bears on one side the inscription :—“J. M. Merrington, wholesale and retail drapers and outfitters, Nelson,” and on the reverse side, a slim-figured Britannia holding in her right hand the settles of justice, and in the left an upturned cornucopia. Around the edge arc stamped the words: “Advance New Zealand.”
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 187, 7 May 1934, Page 4
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129OLD COIN FOUND Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 187, 7 May 1934, Page 4
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