QUEEN ANNE COIN
NOT LEGAL TENDER. Coins issued before 1816 are not legal tender. This fact was emphasised at Southend recently, when John David James, 37, of Shrewsbury Road, Forest Gate, was committed for trial charged with uttering as a current 5/- piece a coin of less value. Mr A. Crump, prosecuting, said in 1816, when England first went on the Gold Standard, an Act was passed putting some new coins into currency, and in the following year a proclamation was issued putting out of currency coins issued before June 22, 1816. Defendant, it was alleged, bought from Messrs Spink, of St. James’s, for 2/- each, 25 crown pieces of the reigns of AVilliam HL, Queen Anne, and George 111., and the same day tendered a Queen Anne coin in an hotel at Southend. Mr Crump said defendant tried to sell the coin for 5/-. He declared that he had sold similar coins for 12/6 each, and pawned another for 4/6. Bail and legal aid were allowed.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 August 1934, Page 2
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