MINT’S BUSIEST YEAR IN HISTORY
ABDICATION CAUSES ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF WORK (British Official Wireless) (Received December 26, 6.30 p.m.) RUGBY, December 24. The report of the Controller of the Royal Mint states that last year was the busiest in the Mint’s history. It struck more than 35,000,000 coins—--1,000,000 more than the previous record in 1921.
An enormous amount of work was created by the abdication of King Edward and the accession of King George VI. Over 2000 dies for coins and medals were made useless.
Describing the reasons why the new 12-sided threepence coin was relatively little seen in circulation, although well over 30,000,000 had been minted, the Controller says they presumably are being nursed as novelties. The test of their popularity will come when the novelty has worn off.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19371227.2.46
Bibliographic details
Southland Times, Issue 23392, 27 December 1937, Page 7
Word Count
130MINT’S BUSIEST YEAR IN HISTORY Southland Times, Issue 23392, 27 December 1937, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Southland Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in