SOVEREIGN FOR SHILLING.
EFFORT TO SELL FAILS. Everybody knows the old story of the impossibility of selling sovereigns for a shilling. It is stili as true as ever, as Mr. T. Griffiths, Labour Member of Parliament, lately proved. Among his change for a £5 note at the lobby postoffico of the House of Commons, Mr. Griffiths was handed a golden sovereign. Since 1914 gold coin has not circulated in England, and Mr. Griffiths at once decided to have some fun with his fellow members.
" Will yon give me half a crown for this sovereign ?" he demanded of several fellow M.P.'s.
A chorus of derisive laughter greeted him. " Not to-day, thanks," one legislator said. " We've ■ seen 'em before, Tom," laughed another. Mr. Griffiths lowered the price to a shilling, but there were still no takers. And then he walked back to the post office and exchanged the coin for a pound note, which he ostentatiously folded and placed in his pocket, while the wise legislators faded away.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19892, 10 March 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)
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