COUNTERFEIT COINS.
(per press association).
Invecargill, July 8.
For some weeks counterfeit silver coins have been in circulation. Last week the police got information that young men were congregating in a hut in the suburbs, and on a search being made rude appliances were found and coins made of Babbitt's metal. They had been cast in moulders' sand. Four young fellows were arrested and charged with coining and two with passing a base half crown, and one with having a counterfeit coin in his possession. All tho silver coins except a three-penny bit had been crudely imitated and had it not been,that people here arc not suspicious of that sort of fraud they would have been detected weeks ago. That the industry have been worked to some purpose is evident from the fact one house detected three in one day. The young fellow will come before the court to-morrow. They are all resident in the vicinity of the hut. One had been employed in the foundry and therefore knew something of the modus operandi.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 10 July 1901, Page 4
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174COUNTERFEIT COINS. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 10 July 1901, Page 4
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