FANCY PRICES PQR COINS
Lord Roberts is, giving Jjis troops the optjon of being paid in British or "Kmger" sovereigns. Thrifty "Tommies" are taking the latter coins, and sending them home to their relatives, who are disposing of them at a considerable profit. The soldiers generally are procuring ao many "Krugers" as possible, for t^je word has gone round the camps that they will be worth twice their face value in England. The statement is not incorrect, Kruger sovereigns having been sold for £2 and £53 each. A Daily Mail representative interviewed a leading London jeweller on the subject of these coins and ascertained their present priced Kruger pennios are being sold, at the large figure of from 7s 6d to 10s, the nimble three-penny-bit of t"ue Transvaal fetches 3s 6d, and a like sum is given for the Transvaal sixpence. The larger South African Republic coins are not bringing such large prices. You pan get a shilling for 2s 6d, a florin for 3s, a naif -crown for 3s 6d, a half-sovereign for 15s, and a sovereign for 30s. Questioned as to the remarkably high figures paid for tljo smaller Kruger coins, the jeweller stated that they were due to • the scarcity of these coins in London.
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Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 114, 10 November 1900, Page 5
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208FANCY PRICES PQR COINS Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 114, 10 November 1900, Page 5
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