Siege Coinage.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 153, 24 May 1900, Page 4

Siege Coinage.

Siege coinage is quite aa feature of the blockades of « towns. It was reported fl» resourceful Baden-Powefß adopted this expedient, a|9 statement is probably true, Jl the coinage may have been ofl to copper tokens. In a lonfw money invariably aocumuj« the hands of the few provisions, and remains 18 because there is no other co^S for which they can exchiil Actual cash is hoarded, too>jw of accidents. We may fairlyl! that silver plate, in the Jl teapots and forks, was q|l plentiful in Mafeking, $ copper was almost certain! metal coined. The face 4 the coins would be in excess! real value, but we may be «| their value as relics will | greater. The defenders of? king, also, afford an adij illustration of emergency finj in the field, for Coloael jj Powell and Lord Edward! gave their personal security $ immense amount of pro| accumulated in the town H foresight of Mr Weil, the Cfc ment contractor at •Qsi History supplies hundreds] amples of siege and war^ Gordon, shut up in Ih| had practically no metal to^a but he induced money-leafo give him substantial credit.; six months of ihe siege he hi £2900 in cash, but he had J in paper, and six weeks lat had negotiated £14,000 inj and had £831 in cash and| in paper in hand. Naijfcj Egyptian Government no£ British Government was eva to redeem this paper, soil money-leaderg either m\d been generous in the extrjjj as is more likely, were killed] the town was sacked. The? instance of siege coinage dui| present reign was that at j| during the second Sikh waij! rupees were struck. The cwif in England produced a mull of siege coins. The much feel Oxford emergency coins, be| in design -and execution, w«| siege coins, though the mefj supplied by the Colleges andfof families of the neighbonl There was already a recognised] in existence in Oxford tfj period, and the value of ihefl was fully up to the proper aisd