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Silver Coin

The method used for removing the silver from the inside is as follows:

The cavity is filled with solder and lead so as to make the weight of the piece correct, and the sides are then ingeniously rejoined so as to escape detection except under careful scrutiny.

3. The ordinary perpendicular ribbed milling of the half Crown and Florin can easily be imitated, as can also the herringbone milling of the Mexican dollar; but Coins with inscriptions upon the edge are considered proof against the treatment I have described, as the fraud could at once be detected.

4. I recommend, therefore, that the milling of the new dollar should be somewhat similar to that of the French 5 Franc piece which has on the edge the words "Dieu Protège La France": The letters of this inscription are raised and this milling is in consequence preferred here to that of the British Crown which has upon the edge the words "Decus et Tutamen", with the year of the reign, in sunken characters. The inscription upon the edge of the new dollar should, I think, be in English.

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116 Silver Coin The method used for removing the silver from the inside is as follows: The cavity is filled with solder and lead so as to make the weight of the piece correct, and the sides are then ingeniously rejoined so as to escape detection except under careful scrutiny. 3. The ordinary perpendicular ribbed milling of the half Crown and Florin can easily be imitated, as can also the herringbone milling of the Mexican dollar; but Coins with inscriptions upon the edge are considered proof against the treatment I have described, as the fraud could at once be detected. 4. I recommend, therefore, that the milling of the new dollar should be somewhat similar to that of the French 5 Franc piece which has on the edge the words "Dieu Protège La France": The letters of this inscription are raised and this milling is in consequence preferred here to that of the British Crown which has upon the edge the words "Decus et Tutamen", with the year of the reign, in sunken characters. The inscription upon the edge of the new dollar should, I think, be in English.
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116

silver Coin

the

for removing the Silver

purpose of

from

the inside.

୮

The cavity is filled with solder

and lead so as to make the

weight of the piece correct, and

are

the sides

ingeniously

then rejoined

مد

as

to

escape.

detection

except under careful scrutiny.

3.

The Ordinary perpendicular

ribbed milling of

the half Grown

and Florin can easily be imitated,

can also the herringbone

as

Milling of

the Mexican dollar;

but Coins with inscriptions upon

are considered proof

A

edge against the treatment I have described, as the fraud could

f

at once be detected. -

4.

I recommend, therefore,

that the Milling of the new dollar should be somewhat similar to that of the French 5 Franc piece which has on the edge the word "Tien Protège La France: The letters of this inscription

are rained and this milling

milling is in consequence

the

preferred here to that "British Crown which has upon

the edge the words " decus et Intamen, with the

year of the reign, in sunken characters. The inscription upon

5.

the

edge of the new dollar should I think be in huglish, and the

AY

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