COIN CAUSES 'TROUBLE
The 1,000,000 new nickels, recently issued by the Philippine Treasury, have started— not quite 1,000,000 controversies but far more than have been counted. They_ arise when one of these thick bright coins is offered to a Chinese and, true to national custom, he rings it and finds it wanting, for, if it is flipped on a table, it sounds more like a bone_button than legal tendqr. Then he returns it and his customer either calls in the police or goes off without his laundry, his 'dinner,. his groceries, his shoes, his candles/his silk cloth, his candy, or any one of a thousand necesities ami luxuries because the Chinese not/only wash clothes, but make a tidy profit,by general storekeeping in :every, quarter of Manila and in almost every barrio of the islands"! Rumour soon spread through the .capital's Chinatown'that "a powerful ring of counterfeiters was operating'1 under the very nose of the Government. The lusular Treasury became highly ■ insulted nurt claimed iv no uncertain terms the 1,000,000 new. 5-couta.vo pieces, explaining that the difference in sound is.due to the new coin being thicker, but giving assurance that the shiny piece, contained exactly the same amount of nickel and copper in alloy as the old.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 112, 14 May 1930, Page 16
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COIN CAUSES 'TROUBLE
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 112, 14 May 1930, Page 16
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