COUNTERFEIT COINS.
COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, October 26. Thomas Nelson Mellare, the coiner who wa«s caught red-handed by the police at his illegal work recently, was before the court this morning and pleaded guilty to a charge of having made counterfeit coin with intent to make it pass as silver. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Mellars, in a statement read in court, said he was a labourer employed by the Auckland Harbour Board. Two months ago he made plaster of Paris moulds for shillings and made 28 shillings, which he circulated in hotels and tobacconists’ shops. A month ago he made a florin mould and turned out 15 to 17 coins. Five weeks >ago he commenced half-crown moulds. They did not take the print of the coin very well. He manufactured 59 half-crowns and spent 10 of them in hotels.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1922, Page 3
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147COUNTERFEIT COINS. Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1922, Page 3
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