I The Roynl Mint in London earns_ start- | ling profits from the actual making of money. Silver and bronze coins are not, lof course, worth'■ anything approaching i their face value. Bronze coins are made jof an alloy containing 95 per cent, copI per, and costing about £65 a ton. A ton of bronze will make 107,520 pennies, or £448. So pennies cost about 2d a dozen. A shilling contains silver worth about VM.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1933, Page 5
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