Gold coins have, become so rare that they are regarded with some suspicion in some quarters (says t/ie Lyttelton Times). On Friday a young lady shop assistant received in her wage envelope a half-sovereign. Later she tendered it at a fruit shop in payment far a shilling’s worth of fruit. The young girl who was serving looked at the coin on the counter and said: “That is a shilling’s worth.” It was evident that the girl mistook the half-sovereign for a sixpenny bit, but great was the. astonishment of the purchaser when the girl refused to accept the geld piece because she thought it w.as a foreign coin.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5089, 16 February 1927, Page 4
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