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Copy of Telegram from Minister of Finance to
The Chartered Bank.
Your telegram about coinage presuming
You
en
have
Rome
authority for making
and
quiry we reply that we would favorably consider a proposal from the Straits, Hongkong governments to undertake
coinage for them
we would simply require
payment as manu facturers
would be
70
and
Chera
charge for seignorage.