FIJI'S NEW COINS
COUNTERFEITS MADE SYDNEY COINERS •- SUSPECTED SI'VA, Aug. 2.7. Reports haw been received lli.Ti coiners in Sydney are making a supply o! spurious coins with which In flood Fiji, and steps are being taken to stop their circulation. A few days ago. an Indian was found guilty of trying to pass a counterfeit coin tit Xatisori, and for some
months the police have been aware of efforts to circulate conntO'rfVitr. er" Fiji’s new coinage. The coins recently adopted as a special coinage for the colony lend themselves to easy imitation. Tan metal is so poor that the coins have no ring, and the device is simple and ijt:ite easily copied. The Fiji currency is most ft rt popular with all classes, and the fenr of counterfeit.-* will cause alarm among -the colored races when 'they find litem cir.-ula.; iag, and valueless. It is thought that ultimately the Government must revert to I’riti-k coinage.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18503, 15 September 1934, Page 3
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