YOUTH'S FALSE COINS
IDEA FROM A BOOK Ex-public schoolboy, and son of a Windsor schoolmaster, 19-year-old Roy Baboneau Hoare. at present a student at the Royal College of Music, was stated at the Old Bailey, London, to have made counterfeit coins after reading a description of the process in a book written by a former Scotland Yard officer. Pleading guilty to silvering a farthing with intent to make it resemble or fiass i'or a sixpence, making a countereit shilling, and being in possession of a mould for making half-crowns, ho was bound over for three years.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23429, 19 August 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)
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