C. C.
41755
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Royal Mint to Crown Agents.
Or 21 DEC 00
18th December 19288
Gentlemen,
With reference to my letter of the 30th ultimo,
and to your reply of the 5th instant, with regard to the consignment of $300,000 in ten cent pieces for Hong Kong prepared by the Birminghan Mint Co., which had been declined
on account of unsatisfactory assay, I am directed by the
Mastor of the Mint to inform you that subsequently he
thought it desirable to make a further examination of the
coin which had been struck in view of the fact that the
mode of pyxing a coinage in the Royal Mint is not on all fours with that which is adopted when a Colonial Coinago is propared at Birmingham under occasional as contrasted with continuous supervision of this Department in the former
caso.
He accordingly caused a further selection of pieces to be made from each of the remaining four hundred with bags of ten cont pieces which had not been examined, the result that of the four hundred further pieces selected,
ton have been found out of remody, being of the undermon-
tioned fineness:
NO 318
804.1
>
342
808.4
415
306.5
453
809.1
470
806.6
807.0
805.1
809.4
806.2
808.4
IL
NO 508
515
637
578
594
It will be seen that all these coins are above
standard, so that, as I pointed out in my letter of
tho
30th ultimo, there is nothing to suggest any unfair dealing
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