Coin Designs
Sir, —I have just seen in this morning’s paper, the proposed designs for the new coins. I can well believe that there is consternation in Government circles over the publication of these designs, as the only way they could have been foisted on a long-suffer-ing public would have been to produce them at the last possible moment when change was impossible. When the new Australian designs were published recently, they appeared a pretty poor lot, but New Zealand has beaten them hollow. Whoever “spilt the beans” deserves the gratitude of his fellow-country-men, as we now have a chance to express our disapproval in time. It is, unhappily, now too late to prevent the wasteful and unnecessary change to decimal currency, but it is, I hope, not too late to ensure that we have a dignified coinage of which we can be proud, and not this collection of second-rate trade tokens.— Yours, etc., HALF CROWN. February 3, 1966.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30976, 4 February 1966, Page 12
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159Coin Designs Press, Volume CV, Issue 30976, 4 February 1966, Page 12
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