GILDED SIXPENCES.
NEW TRICK FOR PROFIT, The cunning rogue.is taking a hand in the new gold-rush game in Britain. Those enterprising dealers who are going round the country buying up sovereigns and half-sovereigns from simpletons to whom they offer much less than their presumed gold-content value are occasionally meeting with "tartars." Several of the half-sovereigns the dealers have bought have turned out to be gilded versions of the special 6d mintage which, by a curious lapse, was turned out an exact replica of the half-sovereign. These were eagerly bought up at the time, and now earn a dishonest penny for unscrupulous persons into whose hands they have passed.
Again the unsuspecting dealers have had a number of " sweated " sovereigns passed on them, that is to say, sovereigns from which a small proportion of the gold has been extracted.
When sovereigns were in general circulation " sweating " was a habit among the criminal classes which the banks guarded against by weighing the coins. If there was any notable deficiency in the weight they allowed only for the actual gold represented.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21136, 19 March 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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178GILDED SIXPENCES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21136, 19 March 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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