BAD COINS IN MONTE CARLO
COUNTERFEITERS CAUSE LOSS TO CASINO
VISITORS to Monte Carlo recently have been puzzled by a notice hanging over the tables in the Casino: “Five franc cops not accepted for play.” It appears that five franc French coins made of nickel and recently introduced, have been counterfeited wholesale'. Much of this spurious money was staked on the tables, and as a consequence the Casino is reported to have lost more than £l2000.
.Oddly enough the law against counterfeiting in France and Mon-, aco applies only to banknotes, gold, silver and copper, and so long aS real nickel is used, no one can be prosecuted for making counterfeit nickel coins. For this reason the Casino refuses five franc pieces.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 June 1934, Page 15 (Supplement)
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