CO129-118 - Public Offices - 1866 — Page 181

was afraid and

the auctioneer's request you & forward to me

the Jaoper inscription,

in Chinese go the

twenty

Cent

& 5 cent

བ་

Viens which the

Staham is opinion

Should be issued

as

tokens

You will observe

that the Cordshiper

also

have, authorised

the

Graham

To provide

dies for the half dollar

(Copy)

881

26th

1977/6 (?) Treasury Chambers. 178

24. January 1886

Sir,

I am often Irloxury (?)

The Lords

having

Λ

had before

them

your

letter of the 13"

me

I am to signify

1st: Their Lordships desire

on their approval of the series of

Coins

to be issued from the Hong-Kong Mint, as

therein proposed - in addition to those

already ordered and issued namely -

a ten cent piece and a twenty cent

A fine

piece fabricated of 80 per cent of silver

and with

A

design similar to that

of the ten cent piece already approved,

and

A fifty cent piece, or half dollar

of the same proportional weight

as

the dollar itself.

and of equal

The Master

of the Mint.

finences (?)

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