The “Southland'News” was recently shown a remarkably good imitation of a half-crown. On first appearance the spurious coin would have passed unnoticed. so exact were the features, but a test by ringing, and the judicious use of a pocket-knife, revealed the fact that instead of being worth 2s Gd it had art.intrinsic worth of about 6d. It was a silver-plated copper-lead alloy, but the impressions on both sides were, beyond perhaps a slightly less clear lettering, perfect, while the size was absolutely exact. The date is 1875. There are several circulating in Dunedin and Christchurch, it is understood, the coins having come, it is thought, from. Australia. - V ; Confidence is the greatest advertiser in the world. This in a large way has contributed to the success that has attended Grieve, jeweller.—Try; him for smallest repair, watches or jewellery, and lie will aoon have your confidence *
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2738, 17 February 1910, Page 7
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145Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2738, 17 February 1910, Page 7
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