Smiler’s Find
JIOW many Leaguers have heard of the token coins issued by traders and merchants in the early days of our land? The colonists used these coins as a form of money in trading. If you found one, you would at first think it was a penny, until you noticed the name and district of some old time merchant, on one side, and a patriotic symbol on the other.
Smiler, a Carterton member, found one of these historical tokens recently. Sending it in, he says:
We were playing down on the old bluegum that, blew down in the gale, and pretending to hunt for treasure, when we found this coin. Daddy called it a “eoin-cidence” that we should find it the same day as the paper mentioned a similar find. Smiler’s token was that of an Auckland merchant, and bore on the reverse the head and inscription of Prince Albert.—Kiwi,
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 242, 9 July 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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