The Archive · 1928

Foam Our OWN Coxnesronoent

Swatow, July 3.

The coinage question in this pio-vince is more to the fore than ever, Chambers of commerce are determined to cope with the growing circulation of spurious 20-cent, pieces of the 13th. year of the Ro-Public. Some two months ago, the market was flooded vith these spurious coins, The public and the merchants proceeded to get rid of all in their possession, and ever since that time no one has accepted such coins. The chambers of com-mere conclude that the only way to solve the difficulty is to withdraw all coins of the 13th. year from. the market, and have them replaced by newer coins,

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