SPURIOUS FLORINS
In Circulation in Hawke's Bay GOOD IMITATION A warning has been issued by the police to business people in Hawke's Bay to be on th© alert for spurious Australian florins which are now being passed. On Saturday evening a Napier man was accidentally . given one in ohanga by a firm in Napier, and it has since been discovered that there otbers in circulation. The coins are a very good imitation of the genuine article in regard to all features of design and milled edges, but have a distinctly leaden sound when dropped that eannot be mistaken even to the lay eart
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 51, 16 March 1937, Page 4
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