PENNIES AND A HOAX
Brighton lately witnessed the final scenes of an amazing hoax. A rumour was started at East Grin stead, Sussex, that a Brighton bullion dealer was offering 2s for 1922 pennies because they contained a small percentage of gold. Scores of people -enrtvinfi hags anvt sacks laden with 1922 pennies »vr\ved at Brighton, and trumped for hour* \n search of the dealer before they could bo convinced that they had been hoaxed. One man, a fi'mn labourer, had changed nearly £1 from his week's wages into 1922 pennies and cavvuxl them 20 miles in a sack to Brighton..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22006, 12 January 1935, Page 5 (Supplement)
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