No.607.
Gentlemen,
12607 Colonial Secretary Hong Kong, to Crown Agents IN 17,
Colonial Secretary's Office,
21st April 1897.
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I am directed to request that you will be so good as to cause the accompanying coins (3 twenty cent pieces and 1 five cent piece) to be sent to Royal Mint with a request that they may be assayed.
They have been refused by a local bank and His Excellency the Governor would be glad to know whether they are counterfeit and if so, to what extent.
I have etc,
(Sd) J.H. Stewart Lockhart.
1.
Colonial Secretary.