BRUMMAGEM SOVEREIGNS.
The following note of warning is extracted from the "Snippet's Monthly Circular " :—": — " A firm in New York have forwarded printed circulars to many persons in England offering to supply them with aluminium sovereigns. They say that the base coins are ' minted with the express design of circulating in G.'eat Britain, being of such perfect execution, and so admirably cilcilated, bath as regards weight, colour, sound, and resistance to acid tests, to deceive the most accomplished experts, that their detection is almost hpvond the bounds of possibility.' •The aluminium of which they are composed ' is stated to have been ' discovered in a valley among the Rocky Mountain", and was at first mistaken, not only by the miners, bufc by dealers in the precious metal, for pure gold. It was more than a month before its true character was discovered, for it was so much like pure gold that the difference could be detected only by its lighter weight.' The price of thfse imitation sovereigns is annexed in the ' strictly confidential circular,' namely, £2 for 20, 53 for £5, £10 for 108, ■€20 for 218, and £50 for 550. 'No more than 550 sovereigns will hje sent at one time to any one person, for fear they might lose their prudence and pass them off too rapidly, therehy causing suspicion, for they are so easily passed that some persons might get too greedy and overdo the business.' Tho circular aLso contains directions how to send an ' order for sovereigns ' to a firm of tobacconists in the Broadway, New Yoi"k, who in the list of prices nlso printed, which accompanies the 'strictly confidential circular,' boast of having 'pud over 3,100,000 dollars taxes to Government in four years.' ft is recommended to ' word your letter in sending an order for sovereigns so as to make it read as if you were ordering jso many pounds of smoking tobacco. 1 "
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 165, 6 April 1871, Page 7
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371BRUMMAGEM SOVEREIGNS. Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 165, 6 April 1871, Page 7
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