FREAK HALF-CROWN.
A resident of England -who had occasion to tender a Treasury Note when going aboard a Medway pleasure steamer, was surprised on examining his change to discover that ho had become the possessor of a picture of the King apparently enjoying a cigar. The coin on which the illusion appears, a 3 915 half-crown, was tested three times and found perfectly genuine, in spite of the fears of the owner on first examining it. “We have seen some coinage freaks, but never one like this,” said an official at the Royal Mint, “The cause of the ‘cigar’ which the King is smoking is a bubble in the particular metal used in the series, an alloy of silver and niokel, which though it gave an excellent white colour to the coins made from it, was, we found, extremely difficult to mix properly, with the conse'queiicc that, in the £14,000,000 worth of coins issued there were many flaws."
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 2776, 18 October 1923, Page 8
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158FREAK HALF-CROWN. Manawatu Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 2776, 18 October 1923, Page 8
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