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be totally unserviceable.
Extrual from
a Letter of the 16th September, 1868, from Mr Kresser, Manager of the Hong Hong and Shanghai Banking Carporation. _
*
*
three fourths of my cash reserve are in queen's effigies and Thold
my chopped dollars for
one
per cent premium_
Extract of
of a Letter
of the 17t
September, 1868, from M. But Bunce,
Manager of the Comptoir d'Es compte.
Destimate
timate the number of Hong Kong Mint Pollars at present in circulation
in this Colony eat about one million __ and that something like 3 – 400,000 have been sent to India to be melted
into Rupes - The remainder must
-
be circulating in the Straits Settlements, as the Chinese on the Mainland. absolutely refuse to take them...
It therefore follows that for general
""
trading purposes in this Colony the old-s
Chopped Mexican Dollars
serviceable.
"
are
the
prore
(True Extracts)
I Gardina Martine