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SATURDAY MAGAZINE

JAK and

GEORGE

at the Mint

IF you are trying to

raise a little extra coin of the realm this Christmas, persevere with Prémium bonds, cash sweeps overtime, or the plain, ordinary bank robbery, Don't bother trying to get any of the stuff out of the Royal Mint.

are

It's a dead loas, and Jak and I know what we talking about because we've just como away empty- handed after casing tho joint for two whole hours.

Lax security

BRIT-

pastry,

neno half-

Security regulations were a Mitte on the lax de Che

So we began our two-hour colecting bright, Mr Starck sald business was of when Egbert man sald)

ls breach of King's Regs., equally cordial as he escurci us

stuekel excellent. All 600 their treasure hunt, starting with Br crowns as they spouted, 00 a Wessex started knocking up because they ordered the Office across the courtyard

Dunderdale velghing minute, into a copper bowl at silver pensles to celebrate an of Works to mave the Mint with aciqvel and fillets which is chaps were minting away like Roger

great chunks of the other end of the coining DWDY win over the Merclans immediately. And the Civil what the Mint calls the odd bits billyho on shipping orders from whacking

He could metal on Abutilon balance, proza We saw Len Jones and back in AD. 125. And later, Service, always pretty quick on of buser metals left aver after Greece and Nigeria.

looking for duds how much, and ending with Mr George Tom Young exactly when the coining rights were the uptake hog the whole lot they've carved out the luere, not say

mists 25 thousands of handed over to the Archbishops, shifted to the other side of the like mince ples out of Mother's coinage they had around at the Felgate weighing the lolly on and

moment-possibly half a mil- another buillon balance six- threepenny picces passed end- a few crafty old abbots used to road come 1810.

lion or to.

pences in £100 bags, as it hap- lessly along a canvas belt, nip across the playing fields ot

pruned. night with unauthorised

We plunged our arms elbow. ples.

Between Roger and George, deep in half-crowns. We had with senior foreman Bermett, who has been we mw goggled monsters tend a word ing furnaces that reared hot air Tom like politicians and spat sparks awarded the MBE for looking our money these last 42 lite Walt Disney dragona. For ni -though low the D. H. pint with his own money down at Morden Park on Sunday me, the noto was indescribable yours, and who likes to buy a

mornings,

Sampling is much more diff- cult these days, although

Good business Her Majesty's mint-rongers do not Since those private-enterprise exactly Anunt their security

two "The penalty for removing a days, however, the only man of precautions, Except for

could be up ambition to get away with ony folla stone portals, spiked rall half-crown thing was sentry who went ings, a courtyard, a 25ft brick three years. For stealing one of crooked In 1740, when the Mint wall, and five policemen from our carbon-steel dies, you would was in the Tower of London, the War Department Constabu probably get life imprisonment," and I might have sald Mr Starck to Jak of The sentry, probably one of lary, Jac Jak's ancestors, ran amok with walted straight into the place. course,

guincas, and has never been seen to this day.

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No, they were not making any sovereigns today. Had not made any, in fact, since 1959, when he, Mr Starck, had had the job of caunting, weighing and say- ing goodbye to some £10,000,000 worth for the Bank of England.

Anyway, said Mr Starck, the Lawrence wordis, most valuable coin around these days was probably not 3 clitve, they "In America, I have armed police standing over vereign but more likely a 1033 penny, They had minted only central a seven the workers in a

that year. Three were

Barricade

We inspected the

We watched them siltch and scal the stift in bags. We raw melting them put specimen silver pieces annealing Hali.

Trial of the Pyx at Goldsmiths'

lery Here, we do things rain museums, three under hours, the cooling chamber, the in a wooden box for the annual The only other formalities the differently. All the mola foundation ctones, and one was guillotines,, the were that they entered our is

weighed as it enters and alleged to have gone adrift. If furnaces, the rolling enllis, the names in a book, inquired as to leaves each department. Those we came aross it, we might cutting - pressca

and the We ogled maney, toucher our nationality, gave us a chit, weights have to malen. If they send it back, or sell it to a outside of the strong room, a money, fondled money, countext end told us to see how far we'd do not-well, everyone stays collector and forget all this natty little piece of prey furni- money, let money onze through get it we tried to leave without put until they do."

scribbling and cartooning non- turo with a six-ion steel door our fingers. returning it.

foot thick, not to mention two Jak, never one to beat aboul

con of keya, a barricade, and And we came out as we went "There is only one way in, the bush, sald this was all very But do not get the idea you a supple-toolding gent strolling in there is only one way out, and interesting, but how was bust can alter a 1935 penny into a round with a this Is 2," Fald the largest ness? How much dough was in33 speclmet, That had been hand. nolleeman, genially.

the Mint minting that mon- tried—and tumbled, Art And, more particularly, the where were the golden sovere vas Igns?

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