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SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1928.

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"BONNIE SILLER.”

PROCLAMATION OF NEW COINAGE.

GEORGE & DRAGON, DESIGN,

Anthony Clyne writes in the "Weekly Scotsman":

"Bonnie willer's soon spendit," runs the Scottish proverb. Its an unconscionable time a-minting. At length a Royal Proclamation, coming into force on December 1 next, announces a new silver coin- age. It is five years since dissatis faction with post-war mintages cul- minated in the vigorous protest of Sir Charles Oman in the Commons, evoking the candid confession of the Chancellor, that they were "faulty, bad in colour, and not well struck," the avowed reason being that the Mint had not "mastered the rather difficult alloy." The all- ver coins fasued for some years be- fure that time had been of inferior design and of a paltry fragility dis- honouring the State whose symbole they bore. There have since been some improvements, but without such fulfilment of the demands of art, utility, and prestige as we are entitled to expect.

Mirrors of History. Coins mirror history, fragmen- tarlly but not infrequently with flashes that bring the student close

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quality difficult to expresa in words dignity, distinction, refinement, nobility that renders them not unworthy of our nation

and many of us receive remunera- tion in guineas, more pleasing thán pounds and shillings,

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for Ave

Silver

The pedante remind us Shylock's Bronze for Copper.. ducats were equivalent merely to Of course, there will always be three shillings and sixpence, but criticism of any. polus... of any the word summons up visions. of human mint, and Impracticable de vast wealth; The Indian Currency manda will be made. For example, Commission advocates that · gold- in 1860 occurred a great revolution mohurs be coined again. The very gorgeous East in the lowest coins, bronze being name Invokes the substituted for copper and the and its hoards of treasure.” weight reduced by one-half, forty- First of the Silver Coins. eight instead of twenty-four. The first of our silver coins was pennies going to the pound. This the silver penny issued by Offa, "uncrowned Queen Victoria stamp- King of Mercia, twelve hundred age," as it was called in the official years ago. The silver penny alone notice some Ave years ago of its was minted and in use withdrawal from circulation, had hundred years before decadence set immeasurable advantages over its in, diminishing and debasing it. predecessors. The design was The monarch who introduced the graceful and dignified, the colour gold noble and gold florin also in- pleasing, the resistance to wear and troduced the silver groat. tear evidenced by the number of pennies were last minted for gen- generations during which the coins erat circulation in the days of the remained in circulation. The Merrie Monarch. Historie continu: of convenient, weight ity has been maintained right up penny was and size, easily distinguishable to the present time by the annual portable, and by these virtues sub- appearance of the Maundy moneys, stantially contributed to its ostab minted specially to be bestowed as ifchment as the minimum price for alms from the King at Westmins- many popular commodities.

ter Abbey on Maundy Thursday. But the censorious, the hypercri- The new Proclamation continues tical were not lacking to express these silver fourponces, threepences, their detestation of

now twopences, and pennies, money. Ruskin, .in "Fora After the splendid courage of Clavigera," described the devices Henry VIII's reign, the quality of on the penny with some particular; the silver money declined until it reformed under Elizabeth, Ity, "Not that, except under pro- was test, I call such a thing as that The use of the mill and screw press Farthings, when ho in coining, instead of the hand was a boy, were as big, and two-hammer, began about the middle of pence filled a waistcoat pocket. the sixteenth century, but not for Who was the lady "sitting ap- a century was the old method super- the edge of a dish-seded. A great recoinage in 1896, parently on cover?" and so on. In a later let- according to principles advocated tar, when referring to the St. by Locke, the philosopher, reformed George's Company, he would have the silver money of the realm. It

reality. The strength and a Penny!". energy of Alexander, the philogo phic calmness of Antoninus, the ob- atinate ferocity of Nero are as plain In the contemporary portraits on their coins as in the pages of his tory. The story of the Byzantine solidus or bezant is the story of

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the International commerce of the the metallic currency to be "of ab- was not formally reduced to the Middle Ages. The decay of France solute pure gold and ellver, and of level of token currency, with gold is truly indicated by the coins of those metals only." The dear, un- as the sole standard; until 1816, King John, misnamed the Good, a practical idealist was not legislat- and for more than half a century spendthrift of incredible extrava-ing for a world he knew, still less before the new coinage in that year gance who dobased the currency for a world that was to develop there had been scarcely any now eighty-one times in five years. The after him.

moriey issued. vicissitudes of the States of When the Sovereign Was Coined. It was then Fistracci restored medieval Italy are faithfully re- Coins have an appeal that paper beauty and dignity to British cur corded in a motley variety of eur- money, too often crumpled and rency, especially by his noble rency, and the greatness of our dirty, can never have. Who can George and Dragon design. This Tudor period in gold and stiver feel any emotion about a Bradbury does not appear on any of the new coins of splendour, beauty, fineness, or a Fisher per se? What charm coins. Its employment on crown- proportions that made them sought have they? But the sovereign, pieces might have been continued, for and Imitated throughout the which Henry VII. first gave us, 48 to render them fully worthy of an Europe.

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•Admirable coins come always and pleasant thing, a thing to Sovereign since Elizabeth, There some notable crowna, from a great State, great in the honour and cherish. Our ancestors have been highest sense, and not merely named their coins nobly. Edward triumphs of numismatic art, since materially, as mean and corrupt III. bestowed upon his country the the piece was first struck in silver State barbarous or de- gold noble, indeed, and his succes- under Edward VI. However, the generate. That is why, while all sor added the gold angel, which new designs, briefly described in who, whether in banks and count- took its name from St. Michael. the Proclamation, can hardly fall ing-houses, or In their business or Such was the high repute to the to be an improvement on the pre- domestic affairs, have to handle angel that after ceasing to cirvious ones for shillings and six-

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