engraved by Mr. Wagon for the new
British Dollar.
Mr. Owen Jones
Wew
engaged to design the revuse, and this
averk had so far advanced in
as to enable me to test the
meu
June last Corning
Presses at Birmingham with the propresed.
dies; and, I have in
my prosesion some of the trial pieces then struest. Several
trifling alterations proved to be requisite,
and when these
were
completed the
result had to be submitted to the Queen
caus
for formal approval before any could be issired to the
to the public. "I left England on the 4th July confidencty expecting that the matrees
supply of dies would
mnt a small
follow
me in a few weeks.
She
continued silence from England
237
on the
induced me to refor. subject induced
me to refer to the din
in a letter to the Master of the Royal. Mint dated the 14th November 186 5 relative
to the Matrice for half and quarter I
dollar
evelised.
as fur
per
Eelimet Ht 1 herewich
On the 30th December 1865 I again
addressed M. Graham on the subject
fur copy N. 2. On the 10th
"January I avrode to the Acting Colonial Secretary as per
copy
W3, and in a letter to Mr.
I
Graham dated the 21313 January alluded again to the subject as per Echart marked Ni G
Under dali 9th December 1865
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