SPURIOUS COPPER COIN.
TO THE EDITOR. • , Sib, —How much longer aro we to bo disgraced with this wretched coin ? I see we now have, besides the profiles of Mr. Coombes and other Auckland celebrities, coins with bakeries, breweries, and other establishments at Christchurch and various other places. I should really think our friends the Good Templars would not like to dirty their fingers with a public-house coinage, many of which we have amongst thisheterogeneous mass of copper. Only fancy a shilling's worth of United Service publichouse pennies offered to a Good Templar milkman in payment for his milk ! What difficulty is there in. having, a legitimate coinage here, in copper, and not to have pur beloved Queen's countenance mixed up with this common coin ? It is clear that, after all, the coinage is illegitimate or they could not be refused by the Post-office and other government establishments. Why not have 10 or 20 tons of a proper coinage imported ! There cannot be much" trouble in this.—l am, &c, 1 Old Practical. Mauku, January 29, 1577.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4747, 2 February 1877, Page 3
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