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To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
Sunderland , July 25 , G 8 JG . SIR , —Allow me in answer to Mr . W . S « Cambridge , April 20 , page 167 , to state that in my letter of the 22 d January , page 31 , I took the coins at present in circulation as they are , and adopted the decimal table to the whole of them , not because I considered they were all necessarybut because they are all in circulationand because it was
, , my object to prove that accounts could be kept decimally by those coins much easier than they are kept by our present method , and that the government would not be under the necessity of calling any of them in except the fourpenny piece . As many of the silver coins now in circulation want calling in , they being worn quite plain on one side , at least I would not wish to see them ruined under their present names ,
on the contrary , 1 would Jik-e to see a two-shilling piece , call it by any name you choose , a SO cent , a 25 cent , and 10 cent , piece in silver , a cent , and half-cent , in copper , and the old silver coins gradually superseded by the new . I remember since we had two-shilling pieces in circulation , they were called two-shilling pieces , and every one knew that ten of them were worth a sovereign . I do not know but that a twoshilling piece is just as good a name , for it , as a guilder , a florin , a Albert , or a Victoria . But as for our good old well-known , and universall
y respected representative of Britain ' s Queen , the sovereign , I would rather , much rather , put up with all the inconvenience of our present coins , inconvenient as it is universally admitted to be , than I would be any party to cutting it into two . No half sovereigns for me so long as I can get a whole one . We have a whole Queen , every inch of her , and let us stick as fast by our whole sovereigns as we do by her . Will Mr . W . S . try his own question by his own proposition and by mine , and candidly say which is the easiest , always bearing in mind that it is my wish to keep down expense as much as possible , and wear the old coins as long as they will wear ?
Multiply £ 13 19 s . 7 id . by 235 ^ . 13-982-5 235 ^ 69-912-5 419 * 475 2796-50
6-991-2-5 3292-S 78-7-5 £ 3292 17 6 ? » . I am , Sir , yours obediently , FORWARD .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
Sunderland , July 25 , G 8 JG . SIR , —Allow me in answer to Mr . W . S « Cambridge , April 20 , page 167 , to state that in my letter of the 22 d January , page 31 , I took the coins at present in circulation as they are , and adopted the decimal table to the whole of them , not because I considered they were all necessarybut because they are all in circulationand because it was
, , my object to prove that accounts could be kept decimally by those coins much easier than they are kept by our present method , and that the government would not be under the necessity of calling any of them in except the fourpenny piece . As many of the silver coins now in circulation want calling in , they being worn quite plain on one side , at least I would not wish to see them ruined under their present names ,
on the contrary , 1 would Jik-e to see a two-shilling piece , call it by any name you choose , a SO cent , a 25 cent , and 10 cent , piece in silver , a cent , and half-cent , in copper , and the old silver coins gradually superseded by the new . I remember since we had two-shilling pieces in circulation , they were called two-shilling pieces , and every one knew that ten of them were worth a sovereign . I do not know but that a twoshilling piece is just as good a name , for it , as a guilder , a florin , a Albert , or a Victoria . But as for our good old well-known , and universall
y respected representative of Britain ' s Queen , the sovereign , I would rather , much rather , put up with all the inconvenience of our present coins , inconvenient as it is universally admitted to be , than I would be any party to cutting it into two . No half sovereigns for me so long as I can get a whole one . We have a whole Queen , every inch of her , and let us stick as fast by our whole sovereigns as we do by her . Will Mr . W . S . try his own question by his own proposition and by mine , and candidly say which is the easiest , always bearing in mind that it is my wish to keep down expense as much as possible , and wear the old coins as long as they will wear ?
Multiply £ 13 19 s . 7 id . by 235 ^ . 13-982-5 235 ^ 69-912-5 419 * 475 2796-50
6-991-2-5 3292-S 78-7-5 £ 3292 17 6 ? » . I am , Sir , yours obediently , FORWARD .