COUNTERFEIT COINS
EXCELLENT IMITATION
CHRISTCHURCH, June 13
Counterfeit half-crowns and shillings appear to be' in circulation in Christchurch in fairly large numbers.
C oins of both denominations have been made with great accuracy, and are very hard to detect, even by officials in banks.
A Christchurch plumber was given i half-crown recently which lie took as genuine. He did not find out that it was not real until he dropped it accidentally on a concrete floor. Then it broke in three pieces. The pieces were taken to two banks. One bank submitted the pieces to exhaustive tests beiforo declaring it a fraud. An offiial in the second bank, after a close Inspection, passed the pieces as parts of a genuine coin. The coin weighed slightly less than a real one.
The present crop of false coins does not apoear to he nearly as heavy as was the crop of counterfeit florins which appeared in the city a few months ago.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1930, Page 2
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