MILLIONAIRE’S HALFPENNY
A famous miser was Sir James Low - ther, who had £ 40,000 a year. Once he changed a piece of silver at St. George’s Coffee House in the Strand and paid twopence for his coffee. He was helped into his carriage and drove home, but came back afterwards to tell the woman who kept the coffe* house that she had given him a bad ha’penny—and he demanded another in its place.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 352, 12 May 1928, Page 13
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72MILLIONAIRE’S HALFPENNY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 352, 12 May 1928, Page 13
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