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Otago Witness, Issue 3870, 15 May 1928, Page 35

“A shilling,” unhesitatingly replied the passenger, who was then requested to examine it more closely. On one side was the head of Queen Victoria, and from that view it would inevitably have been accepted as the familiar “ bob." Only on the reverse was there an indication of difference, which showed the coin to be one of some small British dependency, but even then, in the light of the electric lamps, neither its place of circulation nor its value could be deciphered. The moral of this little demonstration came from the conductor. He had to replace this coin -with a shilling, for the Tramways Department accepts nothing in the way of extraordinary coins collected by its servants, even though their likeness to those in circulation here defies more than a casual inspection. ’