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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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