DEFEATING COINERS

Evening Star, Issue 21717, 11 May 1934, Page 1

DEFEATING COINERS

INVENTION BY CONVICT TESTS AT ROYAL MINT. A Liverpool counterfeiter, who is serving a sentence of throe years’ penal servitude, is believed to be responsible for a coming revolution in British coinage. Experiments are being carried out at the Royal Mint with a view to providing a new type of coin with a milling which it is thought will make counterfeiting impossible. In this collection it is recalled that when Alfred Edward White was convicted at Liverpool Assizes last October for counterfeiting he put forward a remarkable defence. He declared he had discovered a secret process, and when his house was raided by detectives be was really experimenting with the idea of bringing about the defeat of counterfeiting. “ I have invented a method,” he told the jury, “ hy which counterfeiting can be stopped.” He ottered to demonstrate this method, and lie handed a sketch of his invention to the jury, stating he had forwarded it to the Homo Office. He explained that an inverted groove running through the centre of the milling would make it impossible of reproduction by a counterfeiter. White’s friends in Liverpool hope that the experiments now going on at the Royal Mint on these, linos will lead to some remission of tho .man's sentence.