A QUEER FIND.
The skipper of an English fishing boat had a surprise the other day when ho found in the stomach of a whiting a brass token dated 1701! We cannot suppose the whiting was 226 years old. He must have found the coin lying at the bottom of the sea in reftent times, and it must have been rolling about there ever since some wreck two centuries ago. By what a curious chance it has found its way back to the light of day and the world oF men! Of course, the token has riO value except as a curiosity. It u-as never current money. A token was a coin issued by a private person or civto authority, and arrangements were made to exchahgn it for goods Or current money. Many famous firms paid their workpeople like this, and some of the designs used were very quaint The collection of these old tokens makes an amusing hobby, and someone who is engaged in this pursuit is sure to aivft the whitinor's contribution a good home. Tint perhaps no other token in the w6rld ha# such a q'oeer story —lost in th* sea and returned to the world by a fish!
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19798, 19 November 1927, Page 4 (Supplement)
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202A QUEER FIND. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19798, 19 November 1927, Page 4 (Supplement)
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