SILVERED PENNIES.
AROUSE POLICE SUSPICIONS. NO CRIMINAL OBJECT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Morgan O’Flaherty was charged at the Police Court to-day that on March 2 he made four counterfeit coins with intent to make them resemble current silver coins. , The police stated that when accused was arrested on another charge he was searched and two silvered pennies and two silvered half-pennies were found in hi« pockets. Accused denied haying passed any of the coins. He said he had been ‘employed by a man who was agent for a material for silvering copper articles. He used the material on the coins to demonstrate its efficiency. He explained both sides of the coins being silvered by saying he had dipped them in a solution. The case was dismissed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1922, Page 5
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128SILVERED PENNIES. Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1922, Page 5
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