NOT LEGAL TENDER
Coins issued before;iSl6 are not legal tender.: This fact was emphasised at Southend when John David James Ware, 37, of-Shrewsbury Eoad, Forest Gate, was committed /for trial charged with uttering,as a current 5s piece of coin of less value. Mr. "A. Crump, prosecuting, said in 1816, when (England first went on the.gold standard, a,n Act was.passed putting some new coins into currency, and in the following year a proclamation was issued putting out of current/ coins issued before June 22, 1816. War*, it was alleged, bought from Messrs. Spink,. of St. James's, for 2s each, twenty-five crown pieces of tho reigns of William 111, Queen Anne, and George 111, and the same day tendered a Queen Anne coin in a hotel at Southend. Mr. Crump said Ware tfierl to sell the coin for ss. He declared that he had sold similar coins for 12s <M each, and pawned another for 4s 63.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 53, 31 August 1934, Page 10
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155NOT LEGAL TENDER Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 53, 31 August 1934, Page 10
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