A NEW THREEPENNY PIECE
MINT AUTHORITIES IN ENGLAND. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, September 17. The Mint authorities have submitted proposals for a threepenny piece to the Treasury, and if a Royal Proclamation sanctions it the coin will be issued shortly. It is made of a metal not previously used in British coinage, but will be silver, bronze or nickel, and slightly larger than a sixpence. Its fate will depend on the public, with whom it may prove popular- or share the fate of the old four-shilling piece. The object of the new coin is to avoid the use of heavy coppers. A British Official Wireless message says that the new coin would be of a distinctive colour, neither silver nor copper, and with a special edge in the form, perhaps, of a wave. _ The issue of threepenny pieces of the existing pattern, made by the Mint in 1934, amounted in value to £94,000, of which £60,000 went to Scottish banks.
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Southland Times, Issue 22999, 19 September 1936, Page 7
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161A NEW THREEPENNY PIECE Southland Times, Issue 22999, 19 September 1936, Page 7
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