Specimens of This Year's Mint-
2 ing Newly Arrived Quite apart from the natu: I me terest. always evoked.
Possession of bright new coma, a collection of English coins, recently received in Shanghai by a local] tumismatist, will be of interest collector and layman alike. They} are. the first of-the 1928 coinage to each Shanghai.
In appearance they differ rather radically from their predecessors, most of the reverse sides showing! changes, although the impression of the head of King George remains the same. They are lighter in weight and suggest the use of an aluminium alloy or some other white metal, the silvery look being decidedly less than in former issues, The five coins received are a five shilling piece, a half-crown, a florin, shilling and a sixpence. Instead of the St, George and dragon depicted on the reverse of the Jubilee crown the new crown has a ros and thistle design, surrounding crown; the new half-crown ix prac tically the same as the original George half-crown, except that in stead of the coat of arms being emblazoned with a surmounting! crown, small crowns appear either side of the shield, 'The levin ix similar, except for the crown over the shield. The new loco. hay no surmounting crown' over the armorial bearings,—but over each of the crossing sceptre instead, The new shilling reverts to the lion shilling, of the George.
sue of 1014, except that the tion! is entirely different in appearance from his predecessor. The new! talisman is more upright and has 1 pmmall crown on his head, as well)
a lurger one for a pedestal.
The sixpence of the original George issue was similar to. th shilling and had a tion on a crown; the new piece, on its reverse, shows 4 design of interwoven acorns and Apparently there is no four shill-ting piece, such as was struck during the Jubilee issue,
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